There’s another epidemic underway in the United States about which Trump hasn’t said anything: the flu. “First, states are not required to report individual seasonal flu cases or deaths of people older than 18 years of age to CDC,” the agency’s website reads. In other words, nearly as many people are likely to die of the flu or flu complications as died in 2016 from the opioid epidemic. The flu vaccine is not perfect, and this year’s vaccine has proven less effective than those in other years. Trump hasn’t promoted the flu vaccine, either through his personal Twitter account, the White House account or the @POTUS account.

Source: Washington Post February 14, 2018 18:27 UTC