CDC estimates for last year are 35.5 million got sick.
490,000 were hospitalized.
34,200 were killed by the flu.
The flu season is about five months long.
Roughing in the numbers, over 3000 on the average day were put into hospital and 200 were dropping dead every day. And this, Gd help us, isn't even considered news!
In the chart below, COVID19 is included, accounting for the unexpected third peak this year.
CDC stats for all types of flu this winter and previous years. |
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