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This year’s flu season has already led to as many as 2,400 deaths — including six children, according to estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
US influenza statistics by flu season. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention page called "Disease Burden of Flu": "Each year CDC estimates the burden of influenza in the U.S. CDC uses modeling to estimate the number of flu illnesses, medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths related to flu that occurred in a given season.
Last winter, an estimated 80,000 Americans died from the flu. This exceeds the tolls of recent years when the totals have been between 12,000 and 56,000 people.
[72] projected that, with an assumed (guessed) contraction rate of just 25%, and with a severity rate as low as that of the two lowest severity flu pandemics of the 1900s, a modern influenza A pandemic would cause 180 thousand deaths in the US, while a pandemic equaling the 1918 Spanish flu in level of lethality would cause one million deaths ...
The Spanish flu infected around 500 million people, about one-third of the world's population. [2] Estimates as to how many infected people died vary greatly, but the flu is regardless considered to be one of the deadliest pandemics in history. [242] [243] An early estimate from 1927 put global mortality at 21.6 million. [4]
Deaths from the 1889–1890 flu pandemic (21 P) S. Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic (1 C, 112 P) U. Deaths from influenza in the United Kingdom (1 C, 40 P)
This year’s respiratory virus season is in full force — about 16% of all emergency department visits in the state were due to a respiratory virus.