About Flu Death

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Letters: About Flu Death

from http://www.redflagsweekly.com/letters/letters1.htm

 

by Randy L. Powers

 

My compliments on Dr. Sherri Tenpenny's article, Annual Number of Flu

Deaths, It's A Guess

<http://www.redflagsweekly.com/conferences/vaccines/2004_oct07.html>.

Before reading it, I had become so frustrated with the poor coverage and

fear mongering about the flu vaccine shortage by the main stream media, I

wrote and emailed them the following:

 

While the Center for Disease Control says, " every year in the United

States, on average, 36,000 <http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/hospital.htm>

people die from the flu " , the actual flu deaths in 2001 and 2002 from the

CDC National Vital Statistic Report

<http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/hospital.htm> for 2002 was (on page 16),

753 people in 2002 and 257 in 2001. Previous CDC National Vital Statistic

Reports reveal there were 1,765 flu deaths in 2000, and 1,665 in 1999.

 

The CDC's statement that 36,000 flu deaths occur annually comes from

combining flu deaths with pneumonia deaths. The CDC has three basic

categories of flu deaths: Influenza plus pneumonia, Influenza plus other

respiratory manifestations/symptoms, and Influenza plus other

manifestations/symptoms (non-respiratory). In most flu associated deaths,

the presence of influenza virus was never confirmed. As an example, on

pages 1068 to 1071 of the 2000 CDC report, it was confirmed in only 60 of

the 1,765 reported influenza associated

deaths.<http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/statab/unpubd/mortabs/gmwki10.htm>

 

Many of the news departments have allowed their vaccination " experts " to

state false numbers without being questioned. The facts should have been

checked and the expert guests should have been more thoroughly questioned.