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US influenza statistics by flu season. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention page called "Disease Burden of Flu": "Each year CDC estimates the burden of influenza in the U.S. CDC uses modeling to estimate the number of flu illnesses, medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths related to flu that occurred in a given season.
This is one of the worst annual flu death totals in children in a season, matching the 199 deaths during the 2019-2020 season. The highest number of deaths in children was 288 during the 2009-2010 ...
Weekly numbers show that 2% of U.S. deaths for week 5 were due to the flu. COVID was responsible for 1.5% of deaths in the nation, the numbers show.
Weekly deaths from flu have also surpassed those from Covid for the first time, CDC data shows. There were 1,302 deaths from flu in the last two weeks of January, compared with 1,066 deaths from ...
The number of deaths probably exceeded one million, mostly among the very young and very old. [68] This was the first flu pandemic to occur in the presence of a global surveillance system and laboratories able to study the novel influenza virus. [34] After the pandemic, H2N2 was the influenza A virus subtype responsible for seasonal influenza. [1]
According to preliminary burden estimates for the 2019–2020 flu season (October 1, 2019 through April 4, 2020) there were between 39 and 56 million flu cases; 18–26 million doctor visits; 410,000 to 740,000 hospitalizations, and between 24,000 and 62,000 deaths.
The season’s death toll of 199 matches the 2019-20 flu season, CDC said. The highest death toll recorded was 288 children who died from the flu in the 2009-10 season, at the height of the H1N1 ...
The 2024-2025 flu season, which has caused an estimated 19,000 deaths so far, is now classified by the CDC as “high severity.” In the U.S., flu season typically starts in October and peaks ...