Right On The Needle: The Necessity Of Free Campus Flu Shots - The Daily Mississippian

Right On The Needle: The Necessity Of Free Campus Flu Shots - The Daily Mississippian

Peak flu season is right around the corner, as made apparent by the growing number of mid-lecture coughs sounding throughout auditoriums and classrooms across campus. Each cough expels thousands of microbes that ricochet across closed spaces and into the respiratory tracts of vulnerable students.  To combat the severity of the flu, a disease that  kills an estimated 6,300 – 52,000 people each year, the CDC recommends the seasonal flu shot. Resea…