Just days after 41-year-old Spring resident Holly Munsinger died of the flu, her friend Michelle Becker founded Shots for Holly to educate others about the virus and help prevent it with flu shots.
“She did not have a flu shot; she contracted the flu; and it was too late when she went to the doctor for the Tamiflu,” Becker said. “So her organs started to shut down. They had to put her in a medically induced coma, and she lasted 12 days.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the flu vaccine can keep recipients from getting the flu, minimize symptoms for those who get sick and help protect others from contracting the flu.
“When she died I asked a lot of my friends here in Cypress, ‘Do you guys get flu shots?’ and the answer was no, for the most part,” Becker said. “My original idea was to rent a bus and pick everyone up to go to the pharmacy together and make it like a party.”
