Very sad case, but there isn’t a sick teacher alive who truly could not afford a hundred dollar life-saving treatment for an illness. In this poor girl’s case, she gambled, unwisely, that she could get away with not paying for her treatment (and, btw, not everyone who gets treated survives) and lost.
People. Seriously. If she knew, or her family knew, her very LIFE was in danger, she would have picked up her scrip. Tamiflu doesn’t always work and it has dreadful side effects. So she may have decided not to take it, and the price didn’t help.
I do not want to burden her grieving family with regrets but I bet her vitamin D3 blood level was below 50. If it had been above 60, she would not be dead. Everyone should supplement this flu season, unless you spend 4 hours practically naked under a strong sun each day. So I don’t need to. Lol.
Seriously take 5000 IU of D3 if you are a healthy adult. Flu shot or not. With anything chronic or worse like cancer, or if you are closer to 300 lbs, take 10,000 IU.
Children should take 2000 IU a day. Tiny babies still breastfeeding should take 1000 iu in droplet form on the nipple a day (either bottle or mom). If they are a little under the weather, even teething, the immune system is already stressed, so do the 1000 iu drop twice a day.
When it’s really sunny spring you can stop supplementing or cut back.