[frogjerk]

Does Tamiflu actually work and is your life worth more than 116 dollars?

[manc]

What kind of car did she drive, did she go on vacations? I ask because she could not afford what she needed, and yet teachers get paid decently

[hinckley buzzard]

If she had taken the Tamiflu when prescribed it would have kept her from going septic. It would probably not have stopped the flu dead in its tracks but she would have had a mild case.

She gambled and lost, too bad.

[Theodore R.]

Well, she probably thought that she could recover without the medication. A hunch that cost her her life

[catnipman]

“Does Tamiflu actually work and is your life worth more than 116 dollars?”

No. and No.

Tamiflu is nearly worthless: it does NOT cure the flu! According to the official FDA prescribing information, in the BEST of cases it MIGHT reduce flu symptoms by one day IF it is taken within 24 hours of the first flu symptoms, and the side-effect profile is horrendous. I know people who took it and it made them sicker than the flu, and they swore they would never take it again.

People are dying because their immune system overreacts, and their only shot at survival is to be hospitalized right away and pumped full of corticosteroids to suppress the virulent overreaction of their immune system.

this is a totally bogus sob-story article, trying to blame lack of Tamiflu for her death.