June 2007 LSAT Section 2 Question 15

A new government policy has been developed to avoid many serious cases of influenza. This goal will be accomplished b...

cheynnelee on January 1, 2021

Please clarify the last sentence!!!!

Hello the second half of the last sentence states.. "so every year it will be necessary for all high-risk individuals to receive a vaccine for a different strain of the virus" Can someone please clarify this and let me know if this sentence means that every year high-risk individuals should IN ADDITION to the vaccine to get an ADDITIONAL vaccine for a different strain OTHER THAN the "prevalent" strain.... PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

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shunhe on January 3, 2021

Hi @cheynnelee,

Thanks for the question! So this actually relates to how the flu works in real life. Basically, there’s a flu virus, but it mutates every year. So there’s essentially a different strain of the virus every year. That’s why you’re supposed to get a flu shot every year, to help inoculate yourself against whatever the flu strain of that year is. So when it says “every year it will be necessary for all high-risk individuals to receive a vaccine for a different strain of the virus,” it means that every year, they need to get one vaccine, but that vaccines changes every year, because it’ll be for a different strain from year to year.

Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.