CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in US
The U.S. government estimates that 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter 바카라 게임 웹사이트 the disease's highest death toll in at least four decades.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, revealed the total in an interview Tuesday night with The Associated Press.
The CDC said about 155.3 million doses of flu vaccine for the 2017-18 season through Feb. 23, 2018. That is a record number of flu vaccine doses distributed, the agency said.
The agency said the 2017-18 flu vaccine against both influenza A and B viruses was estimated to be about 40 percent effective.
In recent years, flu-related deaths have ranged from about 12,000 to 56,000.
Last fall and winter, the U.S. went through one of the most severe flu seasons in recent memory. The season was driven by a kind of flu that tends to put more people in the hospital and cause more deaths, particularly among young children and the elderly.