[DouglasKC]

“CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths from influenza (Table 1).” https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html

Okay to the math:

35,500,000 get the flu.

34,200 die from the flu.

34,200 divided by 35,500,000 = .00096 = .096%. So LESS than 1% die. Rush is claiming that the mortality rate for the flu is "much higher" than 2 or 3 percent.

[BushCountry]

It might be a little now, but like I said they might have a treatment (already for SARS and Ebola) that would reduce the mortality rate under the flu. The treatment has been very effective.

The highest rate using solid data in industrial society is 1%, but if you look below it is less than 1% (.4% & .5% respectively).

South Korea, 10 deaths out of 977. (.01)
Cruise ship 3 out of 691. (.004)
Japan 1 out 170. (.005)