Annual flu deaths vary from year to year. Between 2010 and 2023, yearly flu deaths have been as low as 4,900 and as high as 51,000.3A number of factors contribute to the variation, including:3 Flu vaccinationrates Seasonal flu vaccine efficacy Timing of the flu season Characteristics of th...
Flu vaccinations The most effective way to prevent influenza is to receive a yearly influenza vaccination. These vaccines have proven to be safe and are usually cheap and easily accessible. Nevertheless, every year a large share of the population in the United States still fails to get vaccinated...
The new study found an average yearly flu death toll of about 24,000, but Shay said it is not accurate to put an "average" number on such varying flu seasons."Our feeling is that it's very difficult to summarize flu with, as we gain more and more data, with a simple average," ...
The daily death toll from the seasonal flu, using preliminary maximum estimates from the 2019-2020 influenza season, stood at an average of around 332 people. We have to keep in mind that a comparison of influenza and COVID-19 is somewhat difficult. COVID-19 cases and deaths are counted ...
How is it that, when comparing Covid-19 deaths to the seasonal flu, you only compare it to deaths directly from the seasonal flu and not include pneumonia deaths from the seasonal flu? And if you were to make the comparison, wouldn't you want to make the comparison equal? Why include ...
[04:46.20]It may grow larger than the number of yearly deaths [04:50.08]from tuberculosis, about 1.5 million. [04:55.84]However, COVID-19 has taken far fewer lives [05:00.36]than the so-called Spanish flu. [05:03...
"During the pandemic, there were firms that were doing their yearly call volume in three months," Nie said. "It's been all hands on deck and it's been overwhelming." Saying goodbye via livestream Funeral directors also said the pandemic has forced them to embrace technology and become more...
It’s cold and flu season, when many people are concerned about avoiding germs. But forget what you think you know about hand washing, say researchers at Vanderbilt University. Chances are good that how you clean up is not helping you stay healthy; it is helping to make the planet sick....