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.
The Titanic was a ship that sank on her maiden voyage from Belfast to New York by colliding with an iceberg in the Atlantic ocean in 1912. Of 2229 passengers and crew, only 713 survived to be rescued by the MV Carpathia, making this the largest loss of life on a passenger vessel at that time.