The CDC likes to advertise that every year approximately 36,000 people in the US die of flu. Is this true or is it marketing fear in order to promote a vaccine they are heavily invested in promoting? The deaths reported as flu deaths, are actually deaths from all pneumonias as well as deaths from any complication of hospitalization or medications given to those with flu like syndromes meaning any virus or respiratory infection. A good example of what percentage of these are actually attributable to flu is to look at the stats put out by the CDC for the 2001-2002 flu season. According to the CDCs National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), influenza and pneumonia took 62 034 lives in 2001--61 777 of which were attributed to pneumonia and 257 to flu, and in only 18 cases was flu virus positively identified. Yes, you read that correctly, out of the 62,034 deaths claimed were caused by flu only 18 cases tested positive for flu.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:12:25 +0000
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