The CDC claims that 80,000 people died from the flu, or complications of flu, last year. This number is the highest number in over four decades. Dr. Robert Redfield, director of CDC, made the big reveal last Tuesday night while speaking to The Associated Press. Some health experts were ...
State CDC says flu cause of deaths for 3 young MainersWALTER GRIFFINOF THE NEWS STAFF
Hospitalized coronavirus patients were five times more likely to die than those hospitalized with the flu, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Study authors analyzed health records for nearly 4,000 COVID-19 patients and over 5,400 flu patients ...
This web page provides weekly preliminary estimates of the cumulative in-season numbers of flu illnesses, medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States. CDC has estimated the burden of flu since 2010 using a mathematical model that is based on observed rates of laboratory-confir...
(HealthDay)—Flu vaccines protect children against serious illness, even when the vaccine doesn't match the circulating flu virus, according to a new study that reinforces the importance of flu shots.
LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released its new weekly report about the flu.The CDC said there have been 16 more flu-related deaths reported this week, bringing the total number of pediatric flu-related deaths
Thus far this year, the COVID-19 toll in children is lower than the pediatric flu deaths reported to the CDC during a routine flu season, which has been about 130 in recent years. But comparing the two is difficult for a number of reasons, including that most schools weren't open durin...
deaths (the same deaths that have led to economic collapse and significant loss of life), there were almost 3 additional causes of death. People who have drowned, people with late-stage cancer, people involved in traffic collisions… ALL of these people we classified as COVID-19 deaths ...
deaths in the United States averaged between 2.6 and 2.8 million people per year. These averages are adjusted for population growth, and with a population as large as the U.S., the numbers should be, and are, remarkably stable. During the three years immediately preceding the 2020, for exa...
and over 174,000 deaths. Although optimistic about the COVID-19 numbers falling next week in certain regions, Redfield is concerned about the upcoming flu season combined with the coronavirus crisis. Redfield stressed the importance of vaccinations, calling them one of the “importa...