Morbidity and Mortality

       OK so the flu vaccine hasn't done its work too well this year (couple witnesses to that in this house; yet we're glad we took it, and we'll do it again next time--minimum?  no harm done, with possible benefits, and to our minds, multiple benefits over the past many, many years).

       BUT . . . when they give out these statistics on how much of each demographic group has been affected and in what ways, old, young, hospitalizations, deaths, they do it in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.  Couldn't they separate the two?!

       I'm sure I'm in that report:  I spent one night in the hospital.  The "morbidity" OK.  Time enough for the other when it's needed!
 

            [Morbidity is 1. a diseased symptom or state; 2. the incidence of disease within respective groups.]

            [morbus L. = "disease"]