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.
Poon Lim or Lim Poon BEM (March 8, 1918 â January 4, 1991) was a Chinese sailor who survived 133 days alone in the South Atlantic.Lim was working as second steward on the British merchant ship SS Benlomond when it was sunk by a German U-boat on November 23, 1942.hen told no one had ever survived longer on a raft at sea, Poon Lim replied, I hope no one will ever have to break that record.. People have lived longer lost at sea; 3 Mexican sailors floated for 10 months in a disabled fishing boat.