715,000 dead can't be wrong! Over 80% of Purdue students are vaccinated. So, there's that.
Flu cases have returned to pre-pandemic levels after two years of decline.
usafacts.org
The CDC estimates that an average of 36,000 people died of the flu each year over the past decade. The worst recent flu season was 2017-2018, when 61,000 people died from the flu. Around 22,000 people died of the flu during the shorter 2019-2020 season — the second lowest death total in the past 10 years, after the 12,000 flu deaths in the 2011-2012 season.
Since not everyone sick with the flu visits a doctor, and not all flu deaths occur in the hospital, the CDC uses mathematical modeling based on its surveillance data to estimate the total number of illnesses and deaths. This model considers factors like testing frequency, the likelihood of seeking medical care, and underreporting on death certificates. The flu can lead to death by pneumonia, congestive heart failure, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease — in which case flu testing may occur too late or not at all. According to the
CDC, “only counting deaths where influenza was recorded on a death certificate would be a gross underestimation of influenza’s true impact.”
you never even gave flu a second thought before March 2020. A respiratory virus similar to COVID.
The CDC cannot even give you a COVID like number because as stated above flu cases and death go unreported in most cases.
715k death cant be wrong.. they cant all be right either. You will never know how many of those 715k are misdiagnosed.
