Does flu really kill 36,000 americans a year? No - it's another monstrous govt lie

[ShootSpeeders]

The CDC exaggerates flu deaths and minimizes deaths from enterovirus d68, the infamous "obama border flu".

Health professionals claim the flu kills 49 000 people per year urge Americans to ignore Ebola and get flu shots - NaturalNews.com

nov 5 2014
As flu season approaches, the U.S. media have been filling up with stories claiming that the flu is far more dangerous than Ebola, and urging people to stop worrying about Ebola and just get flu shots instead. These stories have been repeating the common misinformation that the flu kills thousands or even tens of thousands of people nationally each year.

But how often does influenza really kill? According to the National Vital Statistics System, which tracks data recorded on death certificates, only 500 people died from the flu in all of 2010. This was dramatically lower than deaths from causes such as ulcers (2,977) and hernias (1,832), and in a completely different league from major killers such as cancer (574,743) or heart disease (597,689). Statistics in Canada are similar.

So why does the CDC claim that 36,000 people per year die from the flu?
According to Dr. Glen Nowak, associate director for communications at CDC's National Immunization Program, the CDC knows full well that influenza is not as lethal as the agency claims. In 2003, however, the CDC decided to inflate the risk of the flu as a service to vaccine manufacturers.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

I'd say flu kills at least that many every year. Our nation is awash with 75 million baby-boomers. We're an old country and getting older. Old people die of flu.

 

[Political Junky]

The CDC exaggerates flu deaths and minimizes deaths from enterovirus d68, the infamous "obama border flu".

Health professionals claim the flu kills 49 000 people per year urge Americans to ignore Ebola and get flu shots - NaturalNews.com

nov 5 2014
As flu season approaches, the U.S. media have been filling up with stories claiming that the flu is far more dangerous than Ebola, and urging people to stop worrying about Ebola and just get flu shots instead. These stories have been repeating the common misinformation that the flu kills thousands or even tens of thousands of people nationally each year.

But how often does influenza really kill? According to the National Vital Statistics System, which tracks data recorded on death certificates, only 500 people died from the flu in all of 2010. This was dramatically lower than deaths from causes such as ulcers (2,977) and hernias (1,832), and in a completely different league from major killers such as cancer (574,743) or heart disease (597,689). Statistics in Canada are similar.

So why does the CDC claim that 36,000 people per year die from the flu?
According to Dr. Glen Nowak, associate director for communications at CDC's National Immunization Program, the CDC knows full well that influenza is not as lethal as the agency claims. In 2003, however, the CDC decided to inflate the risk of the flu as a service to vaccine manufacturers.

Link?

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Here's the link though you could have gotten it yourself in 3 seconds.

Health professionals claim the flu kills 49 000 people per year urge Americans to ignore Ebola and get flu shots - NaturalNews.com

I see now that i did give a link in the op. What are you talking about?

 

[Syriusly]

The CDC exaggerates flu deaths and minimizes deaths from enterovirus d68, the infamous "obama border flu".

Health professionals claim the flu kills 49 000 people per year urge Americans to ignore Ebola and get flu shots - NaturalNews.com

nov 5 2014
As flu season approaches, the U.S. media have been filling up with stories claiming that the flu is far more dangerous than Ebola, and urging people to stop worrying about Ebola and just get flu shots instead. These stories have been repeating the common misinformation that the flu kills thousands or even tens of thousands of people nationally each year.

But how often does influenza really kill? According to the National Vital Statistics System, which tracks data recorded on death certificates, only 500 people died from the flu in all of 2010. This was dramatically lower than deaths from causes such as ulcers (2,977) and hernias (1,832), and in a completely different league from major killers such as cancer (574,743) or heart disease (597,689). Statistics in Canada are similar.

So why does the CDC claim that 36,000 people per year die from the flu?
According to Dr. Glen Nowak, associate director for communications at CDC's National Immunization Program, the CDC knows full well that influenza is not as lethal as the agency claims. In 2003, however, the CDC decided to inflate the risk of the flu as a service to vaccine manufacturers.

Wow- that is like the National Enquirer of Disease, isn't it?

Where did that quote from Dr. Glen Nowak come from?

Well we really don't know- since the article quotes him- but doesn't give a citation for that quote.

What we do know is even from this poorly cited article- it even admits that 115 children died in America from influenza last year

"It's amazing because influenza we know can cause anywhere from 3,000 to 49,000 deaths a year, depending on the severity of the strain," Dr. Virginia Caine said. She is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Indiana University School of Medicine.

The article quotes from the BMJ- but of course doesn't provide a citation. And searching through the BMJ website that quotation is not found.

No idea why anyone would take this article seriously.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

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Wow- that is like the National Enquirer of Disease, isn't it?

Where did that quote from Dr. Glen Nowak come from?

Well we really don't know- since the article quotes him- but doesn't give a citation for that quote.

What we do know is even from this poorly cited article- it even admits that 115 children died in America from influenza last year

"It's amazing because influenza we know can cause anywhere from 3,000 to 49,000 deaths a year, depending on the severity of the strain," Dr. Virginia Caine said. She is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Indiana University School of Medicine.

The article quotes from the BMJ- but of course doesn't provide a citation. And searching through the BMJ website that quotation is not found.

No idea why anyone would take this article seriously.

Yes indeed. People should accept everything the govt says.

 

[Old Rocks]

About 30 seconds on google.

FastStats - Deaths and Mortality

• Number of deaths: 2,515,458
• Death rate: 807.3 deaths per 100,000 population
• Life expectancy: 78.7 years
• Infant Mortality rate: 6.07 deaths per 1,000 live births

Number of deaths for leading causes of death:

• Heart disease: 596,577
• Cancer: 576,691
• Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 142,943
• Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,932
• Accidents (unintentional injuries): 126,438
• Alzheimer's disease: 84,974
• Diabetes: 73,831
• Influenza and Pneumonia: 53,826
• Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,591
• Intentional self-harm (suicide): 39,518

 

[Old Rocks]

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Wow- that is like the National Enquirer of Disease, isn't it?

Where did that quote from Dr. Glen Nowak come from?

Well we really don't know- since the article quotes him- but doesn't give a citation for that quote.

What we do know is even from this poorly cited article- it even admits that 115 children died in America from influenza last year

"It's amazing because influenza we know can cause anywhere from 3,000 to 49,000 deaths a year, depending on the severity of the strain," Dr. Virginia Caine said. She is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Indiana University School of Medicine.

The article quotes from the BMJ- but of course doesn't provide a citation. And searching through the BMJ website that quotation is not found.

No idea why anyone would take this article seriously.

Yes indeed. People should accept everything the govt says.

Better than accepting a whack job on the internet.

 

[Old Rocks]

Depends on the year. Best, 3349, worst, 48614.

How Many People Die From Flu Each Year Depends How You Slice The Data Shots - Health News NPR

A new analysis of the past 31 flu seasons, put out by the CDC this afternoon, shows that 36K might have been a third too high. It's more like 23,607 per year, on average. But it all depends on how you slice the data.

The new average is an average of the past 31 seasons. It goes all the way back to 1976. But if you were to look at just the past 10 seasons, the average per year is higher — 32,743.

Or you can look at this way: In some years as few as 3,349 have died (back in 1986-7). But the highest annual average toll was 48,614, just seven seasons ago (2003-4).

The reason for this wide variation: Deaths peak when the H3N2 strain of influenza A dominates. When it's H1N1 or influenza B, the toll is quite a bit lower. Scientists can guess which strain may predominate in a given year, but it's only a guess. That's why the flu vaccine doesn't work in some years. But it usually does.

 

[Syriusly]

Depends on the year. Best, 3349, worst, 48614.

How Many People Die From Flu Each Year Depends How You Slice The Data Shots - Health News NPR

A new analysis of the past 31 flu seasons, put out by the CDC this afternoon, shows that 36K might have been a third too high. It's more like 23,607 per year, on average. But it all depends on how you slice the data.

The new average is an average of the past 31 seasons. It goes all the way back to 1976. But if you were to look at just the past 10 seasons, the average per year is higher — 32,743.

Or you can look at this way: In some years as few as 3,349 have died (back in 1986-7). But the highest annual average toll was 48,614, just seven seasons ago (2003-4).

The reason for this wide variation: Deaths peak when the H3N2 strain of influenza A dominates. When it's H1N1 or influenza B, the toll is quite a bit lower. Scientists can guess which strain may predominate in a given year, but it's only a guess. That's why the flu vaccine doesn't work in some years. But it usually does.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/even-in-2014-influenza-kills/

If all you have is a few sniffles and a cough plus or minus a low grade fever, you probably do not have the flu, but people commonly think that it is. Based on this misconception, they downplay the seriousness of the flu, thinking they can deal with it if they get it. Most probably can, although they’ll be laid up for several days. Some, however, cannot, even if they’re young and healthy:

Alice Jones and her husband, Darrell, both in college and raising three children, got sick with the flu on a Thursday. By Monday, Alice, 29, an aspiring Dallas nurse, was dead.

Darrell Jones, a criminal justice student who served in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan for nearly a year, said he and his children are so devastated they can’t stay in their house and are temporarily living with relatives.

“I made it through Afghanistan and thought we would move on with our lives,” said Jones, who turned 27 the day his wife died. “I was thinking that was the most dangerous part of our marriage.”

Neither Jones nor his wife had gotten flu shots this year. At the time of her death at University General Hospital on Jan. 6, doctors insisted that the three children, ages 10, 7 and 3, be checked out and vaccinated.

One of the boys tested positive for flu.

It happened fast, too. Three days after she started showing symptoms, Alice started to experience shortness of breath. The next morning, she went to a clinic to seek care and this is what happened:

Monday morning, Jones said he took his wife to their local medical clinic, and when they found that her blood pressure was low, the clinic called 911 and she was rushed to University General Hospital, where she began to experience seizures.

“They were going to do a CT scan and got her into the ICU,” said Jones. “She started coding, and they couldn’t get her stable. I made it out there on time before her last breath. … It was a big shock. I still can’t really believe it.”

Here was a woman who was young and healthy, and in a mere four days or so after getting sick she was dead. She had her whole life to look forward to, to quote the common cliché used whenever anyone young dies unexpectedly, and there are now three children without a mother and a husband without a wife. Antivaccinationists frequently try to discount people who die from the flu, either by claiming that it wasn’t the flu that killed them or trying to argue that the flu only kills the very old and sick or the very young (as in babies). Of course, that latter observation is, at the very least, an excellent argument for vaccinating babies and children, but antivaccinationists do their best to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about flu vaccines (all vaccines, actually) among the parents who have to consent to allow their babies and children to be vaccinated. In the case of Alice Jones, none of these arguments apply. In the fantasy world of antivaccinationists who downplay the seriousness of the flu as a disease, Alice Jones should still be alive.

But she isn’t.​

 

[ShootSpeeders]

About 30 seconds on google.

FastStats - Deaths and Mortality

• Number of deaths: 2,515,458
• Death rate: 807.3 deaths per 100,000 population
• Life expectancy: 78.7 years
• Infant Mortality rate: 6.07 deaths per 1,000 live births

Number of deaths for leading causes of death:

• Heart disease: 596,577
• Cancer: 576,691
• Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 142,943
• Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,932
• Accidents (unintentional injuries): 126,438
• Alzheimer's disease: 84,974
• Diabetes: 73,831
• Influenza and Pneumonia: 53,826
• Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,591
• Intentional self-harm (suicide): 39,518

That doesn't prove anything, you nitwit. That source got their stats from the govt too.

 

[Old Rocks]

And your silly flap-yap only proves you the fool.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Had the worst flu of my life years back and don't find it's lethal potential exaggerated at all. But for that occasion I don't get sick for all intents and purposes, but the flu had me bedridden and feeling like living death.