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I'm sure Larry Page will be looking at this data after personally paying for free flu shots to bay area kids. In his article he mentions "...flu shots can have a big effect in preventing flu in the whole region...", so I wouldn't be surprised if this page was directly related to him providing free shots. https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage/posts/32xY3Z1zckL

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False, they are not related. Google has been predicting flu severity (based on search data) since 2006.

False. My assertion was that Larry will be looking at this data based on him providing flu shots. I then posited that there is a connection between this page and Larry's flu shot charity -- not that one caused the other, but implied that within Google there was a discussion on the relationship between Larry's activity and this page.

In addition, the comment was intended to draw attention to Larry's assertion that flu shots can reduce flu severity in a region...and then provoke readers to investigate whether they find that to be the case. I came to no conclusions about the Bay Area's severity being particularly worse or better than other regions and assumed others may have commentary.

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