how many tens of thousands die from regular flu each year?
83 children died from seasonal flu last year. So far in week 40 of this reporting year, 86 children have died. This predicts about a 35% increase in pediatric flu deaths this year. Significant, but not catastrophic.
In many cases, because of the overwhelming numbers, the labs are not testing for H1N1 because the treatment for it is not different from the seasonal type A. In some cases, clinics are not allowed to send more than three samples for testing each week, even though the waiting rooms are full of flu patients.
Given that, how can we know how prevelent the H1N1 flu is? How do we know it is not the regular type A?
How many people even had each disease last week? How many died from seasonal type A flu?
We are being fed a great deal of Cr*p from the CDC and I challenge them to prove their methodology for counting the cases out there now.
“how many tens of thousands die from regular flu each year?”
Flu Season Update - Swine Flu Update
2009-2010 Flu Season
By Vincent Iannelli, M.D., About.com
Updated October 10, 2009
Flu Deaths
Each year, the flu is reported to be responsible for almost 36,000 deaths, including about 46 to 74 deaths in children. Last year (2008-09 flu season), 97 deaths in children were reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. Unfortunately, this is not unusual in a typical flu season.
There have been sixty-six influenza-associated pediatric death this season from swine flu, including twenty-nine since August 30
http://pediatrics.about.com/od/kidsandtheflu/a/0607_flu_update.htm