>> It took twelve months and 61 million infections for the H1N1 swine flu to kill 12,500 Americans in 2009–10.
BullSHHH
The CDC and WHO stopped counting in 2009 when they realized that millions would be infected. They modeled the number of deaths. Since then they just call it another flu.
“CDC estimates that between 41 million and 84 million cases of 2009 H1N1 occurred between April 2009 and January 16, 2010,” the agency said in a statement. Usually the CDC goes with a middle number, which it puts at about 57 million people infected.
Between 8,330 and 17,160 people died during that time from H1N1, with a middle range of about 12,000, the CDC said. But between 880 and 1,800 children died, up to 13,000 adults under the age of 65 and only 1,000 to 2,000 elderly.
ACCURATE ESTIMATES
The CDC and the World Health Organization stopped trying to count all the actual cases months ago, once it became clear that H1N1 was a pandemic that would infect millions.
WHO’s count of lab-confirmed cases showed that at least 15,292 people had died in 212 countries and territories.