For years, the CDC has been promoting the notion that flu shots are between 70 and 90 percent effective in preventing influenza 16 and everybody needs to get vaccinated because type A and type B influenza causes more than 200,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths in the U.S. every year.
Richard Parker boards the lifeboat and suddenly Pi realizes the danger in sharing a tiny space with a vicious animal. He throws himself into the roiling water. The narrative moves back a few moments to the point just before the sinking of the Tsimtsum. Pi is sleeping when a loud noise, perhaps an explosion, wakes him.
Smeltzer was one of three Kalamazoo-area residents on the USS Indianapolis. Richard Drury went down with the ship and Clifford Kreis escaped in a life raft and died in 1992. Meanwhile, the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the failure to rescue the men has become a source of consternation within the Navy.