The CDC releases estimates on flu cases and deaths each year. Right now, the agency estimates that between 730 and 2,100 people have died of the flu from Oct. 1 through Oct. 29—and the season ...

For as long as I can remember now, we've been saying 36,000 people die each year from the flu. When we've asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for updated figures, they told us 36K ...

By comparison, an estimated 35 million Americans caught the flu last year, with 34,000 deaths: less than 0.1%. The coronavirus is much deadlier than seasonal flu, particularly for older people ...

Yesterday, President Trump claimed that "sometimes over 100,000" people die from the flu annually but CDC data shows that the true death toll is significantly lower, even in seasons that are ...

During the entire calendar year of 2023, 157 males and 179 females died of flu. The toll compares with 361 flu deaths in 2018. A boy aged between one and four was the youngest to die of flu last year.

Flu deaths are down two-thirds from the five-year average, a drop that could indicate the most vulnerable Americans died in the first wave of COVID-19. New federal estimates show no flu deaths for ...

But this year, the spike in deaths is steeper, with the percent of deaths attributed to the flu reaching 2% of deaths around the state in early January, higher than it has been in the last two ...

The flu disappeared this year. ... worth remembering that there are some key practices we can continue to implement to prevent some of the 20,000-plus flu-related deaths each year.

This year’s flu season is proving to be the worst epidemic in nearly a decade. Schools in at least 11 states have closed, and the dominant strain of flu this season, H3N2, has resulted in the ...

The coming flu season may be a doozy. Even as coronavirus was devastating populations around the world, killing 3.7 million people globally, doctors and public health officials noticed something ...