among the other flu strains. they say you should get a shot and stay home if you get sick with the flu to avoid giving it to someone with a weak immune system. pediatric deaths continue to rise. an additional 10 pediatric deaths over the past weeks. it brings the national total to 63. very sad news, julie. julie: are they saying anything if you haven t had the flu shot it is not too late and still do it? they say even if you haven t gotten the shot it is not too late to get it. flu seasons can last 20 weeks or more. we re at week 11 right now. statistically we re just barely halfway through it. julie: all right. thank you so much. jonathan. jon: the trump administration reacting to the reimprisonment of an 81-year-old american overseas this as his family speaks out on the horrors their father has endured. plus will democrats defend the author of the anti-trump
longer. if you are applying for a mortgage, banks need to verify your tax return with the irs. that is going to be a problem for home buyers trying to get a mortgage. if you are a retiree, your social security checks will still go out but the processing of social security works, the employees are going to be furloughed or working they will not be coming to work which means if you are recently retired, you won t be able to begin your benefits until this shutdown ends. for business owners, from the store down the street to farms across the country, the small business administration is two is going to stop guaranteeing loans and farm subsidy will stop. and workers will oversee clinical trials and care for animals. that rodent cares for animals because they do testing with animals. they are unable to bring in new human patients to study things like new flu strains, it is already a deadly flu season. the supplemental nutrition
they suggest dogs with a cough and runny nose should avoid going to doggy dairkycare centers. you know the teacher we ve been telling youg about the one who was suspended for having third graders write letters to a cop killer. she s defending her actions. this explanation is unbelievable. she now blames it on the kids, saying it was their idea. listen. i mentioned to my students that he was ill they told me they would like to write get well letters. blame it on the third graders. well, she ended up apologizing and asked the school board not to fire her. her students wrote letters to the man who is serving a life sentence for killing a police officer in 1981. that officer s widow says the teacher doesn t understand the impact of what she did. i was just about her age when i walked into jefferson hospital
any more we have to question what does that say about us that there was a near hysteria in parts of the u.s. and we had a few cases here there are still thousands dieing in west africa and it seems that we don t care as much. you don t want to learn the hard way. you want to treat it where it is and help others the and we re seeing commitment from the u.s. and others. another thing you got me scared about now, i m not going to get ebola, but i m going 0 get the flu and you re making me get this shot and it s not going to work because the flu has changed. what s the reality? don t be scared. fear is never helpful. too late. it s important to get educated. the truth is it s a guessing game with the flu vaccine. we start thinking in february the flu season will start later in the year but what strains will we see? what should we put in the flu vaccine? forecast flu shots protect against three or four different strains of the flu. even if it s not a perfect match against one partic
circulating is called h3n2. we also know that about half or slightly more than half of the strains don t match the current vaccine. so we know that everybody should still get vaccinated because even if it s not a perfect match, it s very effective. but we also know that that influenza always throws a few punches that we may not have anticipated. and so we need to watch very carefully and listen to the things the cdc is telling us about how to deal with the strains. so we know a lot more than we used to. but we don t know at all at this point. you ve been involved in clinical vaccine trials on many different flu strains for three decades. can all of the flu strains and this flu be compared? do you approach them with the same strategy? i think we approach them slightly differently. the usual strains when the virus