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CDC: 80,000 People Died Of Flu Last Winter In U.S., Highest Death Toll In 40 years
AP via Stat ^ | 09/26/18

Posted on 03/27/2020 8:05:29 AM PDT by Enlightened1

NEW YORK — An estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter — the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades.

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.

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KEYWORDS: 2017; ap; coronavirus; deaths; flu; flumortality; imperialcollege; neilferguson; panglossiantrollpost; unitedkingdom
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80,000 people in the USA died of the Flu in 2017, and there was no freak out or lock down.

Today Coronavirus has killed 1,307 people in the USA.  Think about that...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

1 posted on 03/27/2020 8:05:29 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

It was not an election year with the Democrats out of the White House.


2 posted on 03/27/2020 8:06:38 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Enlightened1

Because we have a flu shot to contain it. We have nothing for China flu.


3 posted on 03/27/2020 8:07:06 AM PDT by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
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To: Enlightened1

(stolen from FReeper knarf)

4 posted on 03/27/2020 8:10:01 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Enlightened1

With all the passing of the movers and shakers from Coronavirus, and the well known data on the flu, I wondered why we never once hear of a celebrity dying of the flu, current or past, news or WIKI. I finally figured out that the deaths are listed as pneumonia or whatever developed subsequently. Small point, I guess.


5 posted on 03/27/2020 8:10:35 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: Enlightened1

Makes one wonder if the China Virus got here last year, yes?


6 posted on 03/27/2020 8:10:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Enlightened1

Don’t give the government any ideas about shutting down the country every flu season.


7 posted on 03/27/2020 8:13:24 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: BenLurkin

This article is from Fall 2018, so it is referring to the 2017—2018 winter (two years ago).


8 posted on 03/27/2020 8:14:08 AM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: Enlightened1
Just a larger set of at risk.
9 posted on 03/27/2020 8:14:29 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: Rurudyne

Words right out of my mouth.


10 posted on 03/27/2020 8:14:31 AM PDT by Professional
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To: GSWarrior

Not every flu season. Only the ones they can exploit for political gain.


11 posted on 03/27/2020 8:16:38 AM PDT by Professional
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To: gloryblaze
With all the passing of the movers and shakers from Coronavirus,

I am sorry, which mover and shaker or celebrity died from the latest Chinese super virus. I must have missed something.

12 posted on 03/27/2020 8:17:08 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: GSWarrior

Haha...I think THAT cat is already out of the bag


13 posted on 03/27/2020 8:18:51 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Trump is as good a dictator as he is a racist.....)
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To: Enlightened1

I understand that Italy has been hit hard by COVID-19. At least, Northern Italy. For a disease that transmits easily and caseloads growing exponentially, I guess I don’t understand why Southern Italy doesn’t seem to have much of a problem yet. Another thing that makes no sense to me.


14 posted on 03/27/2020 8:19:26 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Enlightened1

2 weeks.


15 posted on 03/27/2020 8:21:17 AM PDT by BobL
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To: ClearCase_guy

Apparently the number of cases is increasing in the South.


16 posted on 03/27/2020 8:23:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fireman15

Finally we have proof of the deadliness of Covid19 from NYC.
NYC had 53,006 deaths from all causes in 2014

NYC had 2,220 deaths from Influenza and Pneumonia in 2014

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/New-York-City-Leading-Causes-of-Death/jb7j-dtam

Another rough estimate for number of deaths in NYC every year,
from Quora - 1 death every 9 minutes, 158 per day, 57,000 per year

https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-die-in-New-York-every-day

So roughly 158 people die in NYC every day and 2220/100 = 22 die every day of influenza and pneumonia every day assuming a 100 day flu season.
For overall deaths there is very little seasonality. March is 108% of the average death rate for the year.
http://www.legacy.com/news/culture-and-trends/article/yes-its-true-more-people-die-in-january

90% of NYS deaths from Covid19 so far were in New York City

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/new-york-coronavirus-cases-updates.html

There were 100 Covid19 deaths in NYS 3-26 (and 90 yesterday) so about 90 in NYC - compared to 158 deaths from all causes on an average day and 22 deaths from flu on an average day during flu season.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Therefore Covid19 is at least 4 times as deadly as the seasonal flu. And all restaurants and bars have been closed for 2 weeks. Let’s see how many die today.


17 posted on 03/27/2020 8:23:56 AM PDT by brookwood (Obama said you could keep your plan - Sanders says higher taxes will improve the weather)
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To: angcat

Re: No vaccine for COVID-19.

Explain that to the Germans.

83 million people.

Stuffed inside an area half the size of Texas.

Just 50 miles from the COVID-19 death camp of northern Italy.

Yet, Germany has a “Case Fatality Rate” of 0.6%.

They are definitely doing something right!


18 posted on 03/27/2020 8:24:20 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: ClearCase_guy

Northern Italy has far more Chinese immigrants who make regular trips to China working in their apparel industry.


19 posted on 03/27/2020 8:24:46 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: dfwgator

Well, that would be logical. On the other hand, I think data from Italy as whole indicates that cases are barely increasing at all. They seem to have crested the wave.


20 posted on 03/27/2020 8:25:05 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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