The CDC has promoted the importance of the flu vaccine for years as the most effective way to prevent influenza. Through the 2019-2020 flu season, the CDC estimated there would be 24,000-59,000 flu deaths while estimating that 29,000-59,000 people had already died of the flu by mid-march.
By May, 65,000 people had died of COVID-19 in the U.S. These numbers are seemingly in line with flu deaths for the 2019-2020 flu season. However, this is not an accurate comparison because flu deaths are supposed to be estimated while coronavirus deaths are supposed to be counted. In reality, the counted flu deaths for the 2018-2019 flu season were between 3,448 and 15,620. Research shows the CDC’s flu death count is six times higher than the actual death count.
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If official documents are only ‘allowed’ to count one cause of death, that means the yearly total of deaths in the United States needs to add up to 2.5 million. In that regime, medical examiners would have to choose between causes of death … For those dying of flu after a three-year battle with cancer? I’d give cancer the credit.
Flu Deaths Walked Back From Tens of Thousands to Hundreds
More than 80% of respiratory infections during flu season are actually caused by flu-like illnesses, not type A or B influenza. The flu vaccine does nothing to prevent these infections. Of course, the flu vaccine doesn’t do much to prevent the flu either. Data from the CDC showed that in the 2018-2019 flu season the flu vaccine was only 36% effective. It has also been shown that the flu vaccine is not effective for those over the age of 65 who are most likely to die of the flu.
Death rates for both the flu and coronavirus have been on the decline for the last 12 weeks in a row.