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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3495137, member: 199"] Flu deaths vary greatly by year as each year the strains of flu viruses vary greatly and the efficacy of the flu vaccine also varies greatly. (They produce the 'recipe' for the vaccine around this time each year for the next year so they can produce the vaccine for deployment in Sept.) The estimated deaths by flu in the US according to CDC range from 12,000 in 2011-12 to 61,000 in 2017-18 over the last 10 years. That 12,000 number was anomalous as the next lowest number was 23,000 and all other years were greater than 30,000. The current number range on the CDC web site is pretty useless for 2019-20 as it is just giving the range for 10 years and isn't as far as I can specific to this year - it just gives the last 10 year range throwing out the anomalous year. [/QUOTE]