About 30,000 to 40,000 deaths occur due to the regular flu each year in the United States. That number could equate to 300,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide.1 The majority of flu-related deaths occur in people over the age of 65.2
• About five to twenty percent of the US population gets the flu each year.
• About 92 children die each year from the flu
http://organizedwisdom.com/How_Many_People_Die_From_the_Flu_Each_Year
When the Swine Flu was headline news early last Spring, we already had over 17,000 deaths from the regular flu, and at the time just a couple of probable cases of Swine Flu deaths, which never did go up much beyond a handful.
My prediction: The deaths worldwide from all kinds of flu this Winter will be about average. But the media will do a Katrina on us.
Great post, NavyCanDo!