Actually the CDC head who ‘discovered’ the 35k+ ‘flu deaths’ that had been happening every year for decades (how did they miss them for decades?) in the exact same year that Merck’s patent for their blockbuster statin went off patent AND they had significant financial legal issues with VIOXX was named Julie Gerberding. She’s now head of Merck’s vaccine division.
Funny thing - a few years ago I saw the list of actual flu deaths from the CDC on the American Lung Association website, for ten years. It went from around 600 to 800 up to a high of around 1200 flu deaths a year. Oddly, that info is no longer to be found.
The 35K deaths a year is pure made up nonsense. Then in 2009 with the new swine flu strain which really was much worse than regularly flu, many people did not take it seriously because of the CDC’s fake number of flu deaths.
Now they’ve come down off the 35K number to, last I read, 25K, but it’s still b.s.