I had this same suspicion about Bre Payton’s death.

Bre Payton, anti-vaccine writer for The Federalist, just died from H1N1 flu.

The H1N1 strain is *specifically* targeted by this year’s flu vaccine. She *preventably* died because of buying into anti-vax hysteria.

If you haven’t got your flu shot yet: *GET IT* pic.twitter.com/ORPnDoG3cf

— 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕴𝖒𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕲𝖎𝖗𝖑 (@ImplausibleGrrl) December 30, 2018

H1N1 is an especially virulent strain of the flu. There have been several deaths here in China from it. And like the Spanish Flu of 1918, it hits people in Payton’s age cohort the hardest.

There’s no guarantee getting the vaccine would have prevented her death, but IMO it would have improved her chances. I wonder if she tried some “holistic” remedies instead of seeing an MD.