re: #218 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Left over from the previous thread:

Flu is a serious disease.

In the 2017-2018 flu season, 185 paediatric deaths were caused by the flu.

For all ages, the death rate for influenza which sparked pneumonia exceeded 10% (based on death certificates).

30,453 hospitalisations were flu-caused, as found by laboratory tests for the flu. That was the highest ever recorded, breaking the record from 2014-2015.

More on the flu and why it’s a deadly disease which kills far more people every year than all childhood diseases put together:

cdc.gov