“Annual Flu-Deaths Have Been Mis-Counted (Purposely??)
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/07/28/flu-death-estimates-nearly-six-times-too-high.aspx?v=1596591179
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- The CDC’s estimates of annual flu deaths between 2013-2014 and 2018-2019 ranged from 23,000 to 61,000
- However, the counted flu deaths during that same period were between 3,448 and 15,620 yearly
- Even during the peak influenza season week from the 2013-2014 to 2019-2020 flu seasons, counted flu deaths ranged from 351 to 1,626
- On average, the CDC estimates of deaths attributed to influenza were nearly six times greater than the reported counted numbers
- While it’s true that influenza is a highly infectious airborne disease that can be deadly, controversy exists over the use of annual influenza vaccines, commonly known as flu shots, for its prevention, and this becomes even more controversial if we’ve been misled about the actual number of deaths
[…] “Now that COVID-19 is in focus, however, and people are drawing comparisons between the number of COVID-19 deaths and the number of annual influenza deaths, researchers are turning to actual death counts, which has revealed that the CDC’s flu death estimates have been too high.” […]
[…] ” ‘On average, the CDC estimates of deaths attributed to influenza were nearly six times greater than its reported counted numbers,’ the researchers stated.” […]
[…] “In short, your chances of getting influenza after vaccination are still greater than 50/50 in any given year. According to CDC data, for example, the 2017-2018 seasonal influenza vaccine’s effectiveness against ‘influenza A and influenza B virus infection associated with medically attended acute respiratory illness’ was just 36%.14″ […]