20,000 to 36,000 -- the average number of people who die from influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) per year.

Flu Kills Far More Than Thought, CDC Reports

Study revealed 16,000 additional flu deaths

Dateline: 01/14/03

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has reported greatly underestimating the yearly number of deaths resulting from influenza in the United States.

Citing "new and improved" statistical models, scientists at CDC have increased by 16,000 deaths -- from 20,000 to 36,000 -- the average number of people who die from influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) per year. RSV is a virus that that causes upper and lower respiratory tract infections primarily in young children and older adults. According to the CDC study, most RSV-related deaths occur in elderly persons.

36,000/365 days in a year = 98 dead bodies every day from flu, in the fookun USA. worldwide? Typically, in a year's normal two flu seasons (one per hemisphere), there are between three and five million cases of severe illness and up to 500,000 deaths worldwide, wake me up when the hyperbolic bullshit game is really at pandemic purportions!