[exDemMom]

This was not the flu. You only get intravenous antibiotics if you have a bacterial infection.

She got bacterial pneumonia as a direct result of having the flu. The flu causes people to be highly susceptible to bacterial infections, which they would not get otherwise. So yes, she died from the flu.

[MarMema]

She got bacterial pneumonia as a direct result of having the flu.

It doesn't say that. You don't know that. They gave the antibiotics because her xray showed pneumonia, a gram strain would have been helpful but none of the cultures were back before she died.

It's just protocol to give the antibiotics under those conditions.