CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 38 million flu illnesses, 390,000 hospitalizations and 23,000 deaths from flu.
I copied this off cdc.gov
I wonder how they get the 38m number. Hardly any of them are tested.
Oh yeah....its an estimate. A guess. Its made up.
Understand how published numbers are generated. Most of them are just educated guesses.