I would like to caution people about using worldmeters as the numbers there have always been listed as higher and since they are an aggregation site they have a very high risk of getting duplicates inadvertently.

I don't want to say that the CDC has all the correct numbers either but I chalk that up to possible information lag.

As for flu deaths from the numbers I can find there appears to have been 26,000+ deaths confirmed in the 2018-2019 season (4 months) but may have much higher because if someone died in that timeframe of pneumonia caused by the flu it's called dying of pneumonia and not the flu or even pneumonia caused by the flu.

Stay well everyone.

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