I have questioned CDC numbers regarding opioid overdose. Today I hear that 80,000 people in US died from flu last year. This is on every channel. The Surgeon General is all over the airwaves stating what a shame people are dying from preventable disease. I looked up how many people got sick from flu in that time and found this statistic.
How many people were hospitalized from flu during the 2017-2018 season?
From October 1, 2017 through April 28, 2018, 30,453 laboratory-confirmed influenza-related hospitalizations were reported through the Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network (FluSurv-NET), which covers approximately 9% of the U.S. population. People 65 years and older accounted for approximately 58% of reported influenza-associated hospitalizations. Overall hospitalization rates (all ages) during 2017-2018 were the highest ever recorded in this surveillance system, breaking the previously recorded high recorded during 2014-2015; a high severity H3N2-predominant season when CDC estimates that hospitalizations captured through FluSurv-NET translated into a total of 710,000 flu hospitalizations that seasons. (For more information on these estimates, see CDC’s Disease Burden of Influenza page.) Estimates on the total number of flu-related hospitalizations during 2017-2018 will be available in fall 2018.
Link: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season...-2017-2018.htm
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