Influenza kills an average of 36,000 people each year. The most flu deaths in one year within the last 10 years was 61,000 (2017-2018). Over 100,000 deaths from flu is extremely rare, happening only twice in the last 100 years (1957-1958 and 1968). You can find one more if you go back to 1918 (102 years ago). Looking back before that, Russian flu in 1890 was considered bad, and that cost an estimated 13,000 lives in the US.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
https://www.history.com/news/1889-russian-flu-pandemic-in-america
“You can find one more if you go back to 1918 (102 years ago)”
How convenient.
That one killed AT LEAST 17 million people world-wide. MILLION. 28% US pop infected, and still at least 500k died.
Not a good one to point out. But then, that’s why the stats were ignored here.