A 4-year-old girl in Iowa nearly died and is now blind because of the flu
, and her parents have a message: Get your child vaccinated.
"If I can stop one child from getting sick, that's what I want to do," said Amanda Phillips."It's terrible to see your child suffer like this." US flu activity fell last week, but it's too early to say the worst is over Jade DeLucia, who did not receive a flu shot this season, caught the flu a few days before Christmas and spent nearly two weeks in the intensive care unit at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital.
It's true that the flu vaccine is only about 40-60% effective at preventing the flu, according to the CDC. But that's not the point, says Dr. Adam Ratner, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at NYU Langone Health in New York City. What parents need to know is that a vaccine is very effective at preventing children from becoming so sick from flu that there are life-threatening complications, like Jade did.
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