The claim: The CDC has stopped reporting flu deaths because they are so low. Our ruling: False ❌
“Possibly the greatest trade deal ever inked was between the flu virus and #coronavirus,”. “So glad nobody is dying of the flu anymore, and therefore the CDC has abruptly decided to stop calculating flu deaths altogether.”
Some Facebook and Twitter users questioned the validity of Owens' statistics. Others read between the lines of her sarcasm to comment on what she may be implying. “Not just lowest flu death, but also cancer deaths, diabetes deaths, heart disease deaths, and many other know diseases,” one Facebook user wrote. “When hospitals are guaranteed payment from the federal government if it is classified as covid19 hospitalization, it becomes a business plan.”Owens did not respond to USA TODAY's request for comment.to retroactively measure the burden of each flu season.
After each flu season, the CDC considers in-hospital death data and investigates death certificates to account for the total flu deaths. “ecause not all deaths related to influenza occur in the hospital, we use death certificate data to estimate how likely deaths are to occur outside the hospital,” the CDC website explains.Flu seasons vary from year to year and don't have a strict timeline. Last year, flu season was the“In the United States, flu season occurs in the fall and winter.
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