CDC Lies About Flu Statistics -- Proof

We keep hearing how the flu virus kills some 36,000 people per year in the United States. Take a look at the CDC flu web site, and you can see for yourself that the CDC makes that claim.

You can also access the raw data and various National Vital Statisics Reports for the United States. The most interesting National Vital Statistics Report available so far is the preliminary report from 2002, which shows the number of deaths for 2002 (estimated) and 2001 (final). If you open this document and go to page 16, very near the bottom of the table you will see that the number of influenza deaths for 2002 is estimated at 753, and the final total for 2001 is 257. This means that the number of deaths from the flu -- which should have been about 72,000 for the two years combined -- was only about 1,010.

The lie that the CDC offers -- 36,000 deaths per year -- is the most blantant example of the CDC operating on behalf of vaccine manufacturers and not the interests of the people. Remember that the next time you hear something from the CDC. Clearly, that 36,000 number does not apply to the United States! The true figure is less than 1/10th that -- in 2001, it was less than 1/100th the figure the CDC reports!

I've evaluated other data on the CDC web site for the years 2000 and 1999. In 2000, there were 1765 deaths listed from influenza (in the USA). In 1999, there were 1665 deaths from influenza (in the USA). This is nowhere near 36,000 deaths per year that the CDC uses to try to frighten us.

Another interesting thing about this information is that there is no report of a death from "just influenza". For the three years I have information from the CDC (1999 through 2001), in all cases, influenza is never listed as the only cause of death. There are three basic subcategories: influenza plus pneumonia, influenza plus other respiratory manifestations/symptoms, and influenza plus other manifestations/symptoms (I assume these are not respiratory). There is no listing for "just influenza"!

What's more, there are two basic categories. One (J10) is "influenza, virus identified", and the other (J11) is "influenza, virus not idenitifed". In most of the cases of death by influenza, the virus was never identified! So who knows how accurate the numbers we have are!

Look at the year 2000's data. Skip to pages 1068 through 1071, where the influenza statistics are listed. The "J10" table is the total of all influenza-related deaths where the virus was identified -- 60 total. The other 1,705 deaths (see the "J11" table on page 1070) were assumed to be influenza, but the virus was never found, and remember -- all of them had other symptoms, too. 912 of those 1,705 (over half) in the "J11.0" table -- also on page 1070 -- were listed as "influenza with pneumonia, virus not identified". Chances are, the pneumonia killed these folks, not influenza.

Influenza and pneumonia are different viruses, so there isn't a "progression" between them. Plus, some pneumonia is bacterial instead. How, if someone is suffering from pneumonia, would anyone know if influenza is really there? Can you imagine the staff nurse just writing down "influenza" on a new patient's chart because that's what the patient believed he had, then ultimately the patient dies of pneumonia, and the coroner looks over the chart and decides to choose "J10.0" (influenza plus pneumonia) as the cause of death?

Without knowing for sure that the influenza virus is involved, all we have is an upper limit on the number of influenza-related deaths. The numbers of actual deaths due to influenza could be much, much lower than the already low numbers that these reports tell us.

To put it into perpective: if you give birth to or father a child this year, that child is more than 6,500 times more likely to be autistic than he is likely to die from the flu. Or check out page 18 of the preliminary 2002 report, where you can compare drownings (more than 3000 each year), injuries at work (over 5000 each year), complications of medical care (2800+ each year) versus 753 and 257 for the flu. With epidemics like this, we need to outlaw swimming pools and medical procedures and going to work before we try to stamp out influenza.

About the only fact that CDC gets right in its general reporting is that the elderly and the young are most likely to die from influenza. Sure enough, the biggest spike is in the elderly. For 2001, for example, 2/3 of the deaths from influenza were people aged 75 and up.

What's worse in the CDC's reporting is that the CDC always lists "influenza and pneumonia" together in its summaries. When reporting the top ten causes of death in the US for 2001, the CDC has "influenza and pneumonia" right there in the top ten (#7 for caucasians and asians, #11 for blacks, #9 for native Americans). Yet, if you took out the influenza part (pneumonia causes well over 60,000 deaths annually) and just made the category "pneumonia", it would still be in the same position on the list, and "influenza" would be very near the bottom of the in-order list of "everything that kills people"! (Note that HIV is listed as #22 for caucasians at well over 6,000 deaths; coming in at 257 deaths for 2001, influenza -- even if every report was correct, and all 257 deaths were caucasians -- is statistically unimportant.) It's a blatant attempt to keep "influenza" in the top ten!

What possible reason could the CDC have for lying to the American people? Well, people lie for one reason only -- to manipulate the listener. Do yourselves a favor and seek health for yourselves and your families, and you'll have no trouble handling influenza.

=-John-=

Note: This post was modified from the original which can be found here.

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We keep hearing how the flu virus kills some 36,000 people per year in the United States. Take a look at the CDC flu web site, and you can see for yourself that the CDC makes that claim.

You can also access the raw data and various National Vital Statisics Reports for the United States. The most interesting National Vital Statistics Report available so far is the preliminary report from 2002, which shows the number of deaths for 2002 (estimated) and 2001 (final). If you open this document and go to page 16, very near the bottom of the table you will see that the number of influenza deaths for 2002 is estimated at 753, and the final total for 2001 is 257. This means that the number of deaths from the flu -- which should have been about 72,000 for the two years combined -- was only about 1,010.

The lie that the CDC offers -- 36,000 deaths per year -- is the most blantant example of the CDC operating on behalf of vaccine manufacturers and not the interests of the people. Remember that the next time you hear something from the CDC. Clearly, that 36,000 number does not apply to the United States! The true figure is less than 1/10th that -- in 2001, it was less than 1/100th the figure the CDC reports!

I've evaluated other data on the CDC web site for the years 2000 and 1999. In 2000, there were 1765 deaths listed from influenza (in the USA). In 1999, there were 1665 deaths from influenza (in the USA). This is nowhere near 36,000 deaths per year that the CDC uses to try to frighten us.

Another interesting thing about this information is that there is no report of a death from "just influenza". For the three years I have information from the CDC (1999 through 2001), in all cases, influenza is never listed as the only cause of death. There are three basic subcategories: influenza plus pneumonia, influenza plus other respiratory manifestations/symptoms, and influenza plus other manifestations/symptoms (I assume these are not respiratory). There is no listing for "just influenza"!

What's more, there are two basic categories. One (J10) is "influenza, virus identified", and the other (J11) is "influenza, virus not idenitifed". In most of the cases of death by influenza, the virus was never identified! So who knows how accurate the numbers we have are!

Look at the year 2000's data. Skip to pages 1068 through 1071, where the influenza statistics are listed. The "J10" table is the total of all influenza-related deaths where the virus was identified -- 60 total. The other 1,705 deaths (see the "J11" table on page 1070) were assumed to be influenza, but the virus was never found, and remember -- all of them had other symptoms, too. 912 of those 1,705 (over half) in the "J11.0" table -- also on page 1070 -- were listed as "influenza with pneumonia, virus not identified". Chances are, the pneumonia killed these folks, not influenza.

Influenza and pneumonia are different viruses, so there isn't a "progression" between them. Plus, some pneumonia is bacterial instead. How, if someone is suffering from pneumonia, would anyone know if influenza is really there? Can you imagine the staff nurse just writing down "influenza" on a new patient's chart because that's what the patient believed he had, then ultimately the patient dies of pneumonia, and the coroner looks over the chart and decides to choose "J10.0" (influenza plus pneumonia) as the cause of death?

Without knowing for sure that the influenza virus is involved, all we have is an upper limit on the number of influenza-related deaths. The numbers of actual deaths due to influenza could be much, much lower than the already low numbers that these reports tell us.

To put it into perpective: if you give birth to or father a child this year, that child is more than 6,500 times more likely to be autistic than he is likely to die from the flu. Or check out page 18 of the preliminary 2002 report, where you can compare drownings (more than 3000 each year), injuries at work (over 5000 each year), complications of medical care (2800+ each year) versus 753 and 257 for the flu. With epidemics like this, we need to outlaw swimming pools and medical procedures and going to work before we try to stamp out influenza.

About the only fact that CDC gets right in its general reporting is that the elderly and the young are most likely to die from influenza. Sure enough, the biggest spike is in the elderly. For 2001, for example, 2/3 of the deaths from influenza were people aged 75 and up.

What's worse in the CDC's reporting is that the CDC always lists "influenza and pneumonia" together in its summaries. When reporting the top ten causes of death in the US for 2001, the CDC has "influenza and pneumonia" right there in the top ten (#7 for caucasians and asians, #11 for blacks, #9 for native Americans). Yet, if you took out the influenza part (pneumonia causes well over 60,000 deaths annually) and just made the category "pneumonia", it would still be in the same position on the list, and "influenza" would be very near the bottom of the in-order list of "everything that kills people"! (Note that HIV is listed as #22 for caucasians at well over 6,000 deaths; coming in at 257 deaths for 2001, influenza -- even if every report was correct, and all 257 deaths were caucasians -- is statistically unimportant.)

What possible reason could the CDC have for lying to the American people? Well, people lie for one reason only -- to manipulate the listener. Do yourselves a favor and seek health for yourselves and your families, and you'll have no trouble handling influenza.

=-John-=

Note: This post was modified from the original which can be found here.