CDC Study: Number of Annual Flu Deaths Difficult to Predict: Study Examines Two Decades of DataWhile federal health officials have long maintained that seasonal influenza kills about 36,000 Americans yearly, a recent federal study found the number can vary quite widely.Published in the Aug. 27 ...
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 ...
Doshi continued his assessment of published CDC flu-death statistics: “Between 1979 and 2001, [CDC] data show an average of 1348 [flu] deaths per year (range 257 to 3006).” These figures refer to flu separated out from pneumonia. This low death toll would drop MUCH lower, ...
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
But according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adults between ages 18 and 64 represented about 61 percent of all flu-related hospitalizations this year, with influenza deaths following the same pattern. This age group accounted for 35 percent of all flu hospitalizations in the pr...
were tied to flu or pneumonia, surpassing the CDC's epidemic threshold of 7.5 percent of deaths for the sixth week of the year. That's actually up slightly from last week's report that attributed 9 percent of all U.S. deaths for the week of Jan. 27 to Feb. 2 to flu or pneumonia...
According to data reported weekly by the CDC, the death rate in America remains elevated. In the six years prior to the COVID era, 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...
“Because we don’t routinely perform surveillance, we don’t know the true incidence of infection or the number of deaths per year,” she said. Though the infections are rare, up to 40% of babies who fall ill will die, Haston added. ...
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 ...
And with so many people currently hospitalized for severe cases of flu, "unfortunately, more deaths are likely to happen" over the next few weeks, she added. Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says this year's flu season is "clearly one of the worst on record." ...