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Originally Posted by Bladewire
No they are not
You have no "inside info" and you lied here about having multiple college degrees. Get a life
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All hidden in plain sight on the CDC website, the number of flu deaths is actually tiny, most are pneumonia deaths.
What categories does CDC use to estimate flu-associated deaths?
"CDC uses two categories of underlying cause of death information listed on death certificates: pneumonia and influenza (P&I) causes and respiratory and circulatory (R&C) causes. CDC uses statistical models with records from these two categories to make estimates of influenza-associated mortality. CDC uses underlying R&C deaths (which include P&I deaths) as the primary outcome in its mortality modeling because R&C deaths provide an estimate of deaths that include secondary respiratory or cardiac complications that can follow influenza. R&C causes of death are more sensitive to describe flu-related deaths than underlying P&I deaths and more specific than deaths from all causes."