Melinda...again, you're assuming that the flu shot would have saved her. The flu vaccine usually has an admitted low efficacy rate. There are so many variables with flu deaths such as the health of the patient, how soon patients sought medical care, if the person was treated properly by the doctor, if there was a secondary infection, etc. For most, the flu is survivable. I just read the other day about a child who had the flu. Her parents took her to the doctor and he sent her home. Two days later she died of pneumonia; the doctor had never even checked her lungs. So is this counted as a flu death? If she'd been treated for pneumonia, she probably would have survived.
All I'm trying to do is give you the other side of this. I just came across another study the other day (2017). There is another side to vaccines that no one knows unless you actually do the research. They certainly don't report it. Vaccines can cause long-term, chronic systemic inflammation that can manifest in many different ways. The Supreme Court itself ruled vaccines to be 'unavoidably unsafe".
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-152.pdf
"Vaccine supporters often impugn vaccine resisters for avoiding vaccination against communicable diseases on the premise that individuals opting out of immunization may jeopardize “herd immunity,” which ensures community health in present-day mobile society. Vaccine resisters are ceaselessly discredited as paranoids who are medically wrong by inveighing against vaccination as an unsafe regimen upon ostensible evidence. What is not controversial is the truism: Data have primacy over perception. At this time, emerging evidence begins to reveal that vaccines' risks may not be so minuscule. Assertions of safety by vaccine makers are invariably based on incomprehensive trial designs with long-term effects under-targeted. Notably, it is extremely difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to seek proof of causation for chronic diseases with adverse effects accruing over many years. Vaccines' chronic impacts on health over a lifetime have been inadequately investigated and poorly understood.
Current split formulation for the seasonal influenza vaccines in an intramuscular (i.m.) regimen tends to induce immunoglobulin (Ig) E sensitization in children. Annual vaccination with injectable influenza vaccines may interfere with the development of broad immunity against influenza that could otherwise be induced by natural infection. Vaccination-related effects sometimes exacerbate viral infections (e.g., respiratory syncytial virus; dengue virus; measles virus; influenza virus). The consequence of a vaccination-induced polarized T-cell memory profile on clinical outcomes is largely a terra incognita. Improper injection of vaccines into the arm can provoke an inflammation that damages tendons, ligaments, bursas and reduce friction in the joint. For every vaccine that causes a tangible injury, there may be many more vaccines that cause either minor injuries or major injuries in a slow motion, as suggested by the Heinrich's law. Even one injury from vaccination is one too many. It is thus counterfactual to assert that vaccination is universally safe with only minor risks.
Vaccines commonly contain adjuvants [e.g., aluminum compound (alum)] which prod immune and inflammatory responses. Intramuscular injection of alum-containing vaccines often induces macrophagic myofasciitis lesions, showing long-term persistence of alum as well as sustained immune reactions within vaccinees for many years post-injection. There are clues that chronic adjuvant stimulation which induces a state of prolonged immune activation may tip the immune scale toward predisposition of a lymphoma state. Alum adjuvant has been implicated in exacerbating vaccination-induced inflammation by modulating multiple immune cells toward collateral damage of host tissues. Alum activates the inflammasome at least in part, in causing a Muckle-Wells syndrome-like effect which is manifested as fever, myalgia, lethargy, and chronic inflammation to varying degrees among vaccinees. Vaccine makers' claim that the trace amount of alum blended into a vaccine is harmless thus has to be reexamined from a chronic angle during multiple cycles of vaccination over a lifetime.
It is inconveniently true that i.m. vaccination induces systemic inflammation, which may slowly confer cumulative deleterious effects with the potential to reach a crisis level over time. Although it is still inconclusive whether systemic inflammation induced by i.m. vaccination is a culprit for driving myriad diseases in humans, tampering with the natural setting by surprising the immune system with needle injection is inherently risky since it may induce unforeseeable perils. Bottom line: Public health cannot be left to chance by gaming uncertainty. It is thus reason enough to develop noninvasive vaccines that do not induce systemic inflammation as the clues are abundantly clear that systemic inflammation is an existential threat that has to be avoided, if avoidable. In case i.m. vaccination-induced systemic inflammation should wreak health havoc by allowing chronic infirmities to fester under the medical radar, transformation of injectable vaccine to its noninvasive counterpart would be a medically and economically sound approach to prevent the ravages of systemic inflammation."
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5669393/?fbclid=IwAR231kv5bmnsHph_amriTPD1UBpTtO2srIMbmRubvpUh48ZIgSls-HKC_K8 
