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.
Some boats sink from overloading because they simply break from the stress of riding the waves, like the Edmund Fitzgerald and a few other tankers. One video I saw on Discovery, shows an oil tanker sinking. It looked like it sat low in the water but that wasn't the problem.ill your kitchen sink with water. Take a plastic drinking cup. Put a bunch of coins in it and try to tip it over by pushing on it or making waves. It won't tip. Add more coins. It still won't tip over. Now take out the coins, put styrofoam or a dry cloth in the bottom. Then add the coins on top of that.