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CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S., highest death toll in 40 years
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2020 Apr 11, 4:17pm 739 views 4 comments
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Ceffer
2020 Apr 11, 4:30pm
Ceffer
2020 Apr 11, 4:30pm
Now, all we need to do is shift all of the flu deaths to the Coronavirus column, and exaggerate the Coronavirus deaths by 500,000 more. That way, it will be suitable for printing in the Daily Mail.
Also, the Panic Pandemic needs to last at least until November elections, upon which it will miraculously and through all media outlets have a blessed and complete resolution, of course, after making sure that everything was Trump's fault.
Also, the Panic Pandemic needs to last at least until November elections, upon which it will miraculously and through all media outlets have a blessed and complete resolution, of course, after making sure that everything was Trump's fault.
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WookieMan
2020 Apr 11, 4:56pm
WookieMan
2020 Apr 11, 4:56pm
It's not even about the virus. Influenza or Covid. We have a segment of the population that is hitting the sweet spot to die from virus'. Get over it. Get healthy. Stop smoking and eating like shit and you'll likely be fine until 80. It's not complicated.
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Waitup
2020 Apr 12, 11:28am
Waitup
2020 Apr 12, 11:28am
Could it be that many of these cases were Covid-19 related but since covid-19 was not official yet, they were grouped under flu?
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Al_Sharpton_for_President
2020 Apr 12, 3:41pm
Al_Sharpton_for_President
2020 Apr 12, 3:41pm
Waitup says
Could it be that many of these cases were Covid-19 related but since covid-19 was not official yet, they were grouped under flu?Winter of 2017. You can probably find info on unclassified flu, but I don't think it was COVID-19.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, revealed the total in an interview Tuesday night with The Associated Press.
Flu experts knew it was a very bad season, but at least one found size of the estimate surprising.
“That’s huge,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University vaccine expert. The tally was nearly twice as much as what health officials previously considered a bad year, he said.
In recent years, flu-related deaths have ranged from about 12,000 to — in the worst year — 56,000, according to the CDC.
Last fall and winter, the U.S. went through one of the most severe flu seasons in recent memory. It was driven by a kind of flu that tends to put more people in the hospital and cause more deaths, particularly among young children and the elderly.
The season peaked in early February. It was mostly over by the end of March, although some flu continued to circulate.
Making a bad year worse, the flu vaccine didn’t work very well. Experts nevertheless say vaccination is still worth it, because it makes illnesses less severe and save lives.
“I’d like to see more people get vaccinated,” Redfield told the AP at an event in New York. “We lost 80,000 people last year to the flu.”
CDC officials do not have exact counts of how many people die from flu each year. Flu is so common that not all flu cases are reported, and flu is not always listed on death certificates. So the CDC uses statistical models, which are periodically revised, to make estimates.
Fatal complications from the flu can include pneumonia, stroke and heart attack.
https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/26/cdc-us-flu-deaths-winter/