do you remember the last thing that tandy said to you?> i don't know what is going on but i am scared. in between all of the breaths she got it out. >> reporter: and they dtandy di the doctors mystified why she was not diagnosed the first time. and this young girl died hours after the paramedic said that she could stay home. >> who is to blame? god? the world? the doctors? >> flu, and it is sneaky and devilish. >> reporter: dr. william schaffner says when it comes to flu, we have no crystal ball. >> we have thousands and thousands of patients who are coming in and evaluate and sent home and do wonderfully well, and trying to pick out who among them is going to take a turn for the worse is something that we can't do. it is a gap in our knowledge. >> reporter: but could medicine be doing more? >> we need better dying niagnos tests to predict who is going to have a bad result. >> reporter: one of the ways that the flu kills the young and healthy is by turning their own immune systems against them. some researchers have been trying to stop th

a workplace in mourning after the sudden death of one of their own, tandy harman. >> tandy, this is whereour years. amazing gal. we're going to miss her. >> reporter: her death shows just how much we still don't know about the flu. and how much it is hurting us this year. the worst flu season in years. tents set up for extra patients. schools closed across the country. tandy was young, just 36, and healthy. >> she posted on facebook, dang, caught the flu, you know, that darn flu. >> reporter: tandy's boyfriend says when her chest started hurting, she went to the emergency room where she was diagnosed with the flu and sent home. she got worse and went back just hours later. do you remember the last thing tandy said to you? >> i'm scared. i don't know what's going on. i'm scared. in between all of the breaths, she got that out. >> reporter: tandy died leaving her family mystified, why didn't doctors keep her in the hospital the first time? she's not the only one. 6-year-old emily muth died in north carolina hours after a paramedic said she could stay home. >> who is to blame? do you blame g

tandy was young, just 36, and healthy. >> she posted on facebook, dang, caught the flu.r boyfriend said when her chest started hurting, she went to the emergency room where she was diagnosed with the flu and went hole. she got worse and went back hours later. >> do you remember the last thing tandy said to you? >> i'm scared. i don't know what's going on. i'm scared. in between all the breaths, she got that out. >> tandy died, leaving her family mystified why didn't doctors keep her in the hospital the first time? she's not the only one. 6-year-old emily died hours after a paramedic said she could stay home. >> who is to blame? do you blame god? do you blame the world? do you blame the doctors? >> flu is sneaky. it is devilish. >> the doctor says when it comes to the flu, there is no credit tal ball. >> we have thousands upon thousands of patients who come in, are evaluated, are sent home, and do wonderfully well. and trying to pick out who among them is going to take a turn for the worse is something that we can't do. it's a gap in our knowledge. >> but could medicine b

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tandy harmon was diagnosed with the flu.home, her health improved for a short time and days later, she was placed on a ventilator and she died. dr. thomas friedan, former director of the cdc with us now. doctor, first, help us understand why it is so deadly this year. >> well, first off, flu is deadly every year. it just doesn't get the attention sometimes that it gets this year. but in an average year, it sends several hundred,ant americans to the hospital overnight at least and killed tens of thousands of americans. and this year is shaping up to be the worst flu season in a decade. >> so i want to get to a couple of things that are floating around out there and get the truth from you, if we can. in north carolina, there was a reporting that there are some pharmacies running out of the vaccines. is there a shortage we should know about? >> what we see with vaccine and the antiviral tamiflu is there's enough overall, but in some areas it may be difficult to get. unfortunately, frustrating as it is, that's why we say try and

. >> companies that were starting to build personal computers, companies like atari, tandy, commodore see them as a home market. and it was starting to seep into the public consciousness. >> personal computers have become the business of at least 25 manufacturers, with three companies -- radio shack, apple, and commodore -- grabbing three-quarters of the market. this personal computer costs about $1,400 and fits nicely on a desk corner. duplicating its performance five years ago would have cost $75,000 and involve the unit the size of a large refrigerator. >> when the average american thought computer, they thought ibm. it made these mainframe computers that ran pretty much everything. >> ibm was one of the most powerful corporations in america. and in technology, it was the most powerful company that had ever existed in technology. >> because of this activity in personal computers, it started to make ibm look like it was somewhere behind the 8-ball. >> they look at the apple ii and say, huh, we could build one of those. we built computers that put men on the moon. we'll get that busi