[McGruff]

While everyone is in a panic about the coronavirus (officially renamed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization), there’s an even deadlier virus many people are forgetting about: the flu.

Flu season is hitting its stride right now in the US. So far, the CDC has estimated (based on weekly influenza surveillance data) that at least 12,000 people have died from influenza between Oct. 1, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020, and the number of deaths may be as high as 30,000.

The CDC also estimates that up to 31 million Americans have caught the flu this season, with 210,000 to 370,000 flu sufferers hospitalized because of the virus.

https://www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/how-many-people-die-of-the-flu-every-year

[AppyPappy]

That’s .0003% mortality rate for the flu where Corona is 2% in the US.

I think the OP got his numbers from Facebook

[daniel1212]

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