Was Schor's Death A Response To Medication?

Schor's family, the hospital, and the Cornell administration have all been tight-lipped about how H1N1 claimed the 20-year-old's life. Consensus seems to be that Schor had some sort of underlying condition, although a Hudson Valley newspaper spoke with someone at Cayuga Medical Center who denied that Schor had a separate medical problem.

So it is with respect to the family that I speculate a little about what may have happened.

Schor's brother posted on Warren's Facebook page last Tuesday that "Warren is in an induced coma on a ventilator."

"Hannah" from New York posted some details on the U.S. News site, although there is no way to determine if these are accurate:

Andrew [earlier poster] is correct; Warren was sent to Cayuga Hospital with
flu-like symptoms, and during his treatment experienced an allergic reaction to
a medication, which caused him to go into a coma from which he never awoke.

Note the inconsistency between an "induced coma" and the medication causing him to go into a coma.

Schor's death, it seems, may have been due more to his reaction to the medication than to the flu virus, although his condition must have been fairly bad in the first place for him to have gone to the hospital.

Regardless of what happened, this is a terrible situation for everyone involved and I hope that we will soon hit our peak of cases at Cornell. The number of infected students has reached 623, according to today's Sun. The paper also noted that there were only 256 cases of seasonal flu in the course of the last academic year.