About 50k die each year while the total number of people that survived after onset of symptoms can be counted on two hands. "Basically if you get it you die" is

About 50k die each year while the total number of people that survived after onset of symptoms can be counted on two hands. "Basically if you get it you die" is a quite good description. The vaccine is more a way to ensure you don't get it (the illness, not the virus), and it's useless once the illness actually sets in.