I believe that 100%. The flu numbers are guesstimates. It didn’t matter enough to the CDC to arrange for actual data on the flu to be obtained.
I never paid attention to the CDC's flu numbers until now. When freepers started posting that tens of thousands of Americans die from the flu each year, that number seemed way off to me, too.
The problem is, the CDC hides the real numbers. But, there's some information out there that shows the real number is in the hundreds (not the thousands). I will post some links as soon as possible and ping the other guy, too.