Reply #6: What may come as a shock to you is that most deaths attributed to influenza [View All]

[mzmolly]

are said to be due to pneumonia which is why the CDC combines the rates. Not to mention, it helps sell a few vaccines.

Lab-confirmed flu cases and flu-related deaths, except for those in children, are not reported to the CDC, so estimates of cases are based on a variety of measures, including deaths from pneumonia or circulatory diseases during flu season compared with deaths from those causes when there is no flu around. If the pneumonia deaths jump in January and February, health experts assume some are caused by flu.

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If you go by death certificates alone, says Martin Meltzer, a CDC expert in health economics, almost nobody dies of flu. ~ http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-12-11-flu-deaths_x.htm">USA Today

As for your "dumb ass" comment, I'll let your ignorance and abuse stand rather than alert on your obvious disregard for the moderators and the user rules.