Not sure where you got those #’s, but the CDC is reporting 35,520,883 “regular flu” cases for the current season with 34157 fatalities for a “fatality rate” of 0.096%.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
They are in the title of this thread. " ... We Have 222,000 Flu Cases and 22,000 Flu Deaths In US This Season"