{"id":206473,"date":"2020-04-30T06:50:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T06:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206473"},"modified":"2020-05-04T07:46:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T07:46:48","slug":"last-years-flu-season-was-the-deadliest-in-four-decades-but-prompted-zero-shutdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206473","title":{"rendered":"Last Year’s Flu Season Was the Deadliest In Four Decades, But Prompted Zero Shutdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brittany M. Hughes \u2013 MRCTV.com April 29, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

As states across the nation lengthen COVID-19 shutdown restrictions and the White House continues to urge social distancing measures at the advice of health officials, the CDC revealed this week<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that more than 80,000 Americans died last year \u2013 but not from the coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the seasonal flu.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, according to the reported numbers, last year\u2019s flu season was the deadliest since 1976, with far more fatalities than the 56,000 who died in 2011-12. In addition, more than 900,000 people were hospitalized with the flu last year alone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among those lost to the flu last year were 180 children,\u00a0a record high\u00a0for a non-pandemic flu season.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The thing that was most notable about last year was how high in terms of activity things were,” said Nordlund. She explained that last season, unlike previous seasons, flu did not strike one region of the country and then move across the land. “There were three consecutive weeks when the entire continental US was affected by flu at a very high level,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the flu season is measured from November through the end of March, with cases typically starting in one area of the country and then gradually spreading outward, CDC Spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund said that this year, there was a higher concentration of flu cases nationally over one three-week span in January and February.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There were three consecutive weeks when the entire continental US was affected by flu at a very high level,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the high prevalence of flu cases, the record number of fatalities both among adults and children, and the concentrated outbreak across\u00a0a short window of time, no economic shutdowns, social distancing mandates or store closures\u00a0were mandated as a result of the seasonal flu.<\/span><\/p>\n

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