TYB!
How many people died from flu during the 2017-2018 season?
While flu deaths in children are reported to CDC, flu deaths in adults are not nationally notifiable. In order to monitor influenza related deaths in all age groups, Comment: - So for some reason - JUST HOW MANY people Die from a viral cause appears to not be important until THIS year? Now suddenly numbers are very important for us to know. Please NOTE: They ADD all Pneumonia attributed deaths to the FLU deaths. This means they do NOT separate the deaths from BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA from the VIRAL CAUSES. wouldn't this seem important if one is worried about VIRAL PANDEMICS?.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2017-2018.htm
Furthermore: In the current COVID-19 pandemic - Anthony Fauci –while in front of cameras– gave the impression that COVID-19 could be 10 times more deadly than common seasonal Influenza. YET - he FAILS to point out that HE, Himself - is quoted in the following New England Journal of Medicine article from Feb. 2020 saying that:
"…On the basis of a case definition requiring a diagnosis of pneumonia, the currently reported case fatality rate is approximately 2%.4 In another article in the Journal, Guan et al.5 report mortality of 1.4% among 1099 patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19; these patients had a wide spectrum of disease severity. If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) …"
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387 (Fauci, et al New England Journal of Medicine.)