Relax. It's always been bad, it always will be, some years it was really really bad. You've made it this long without the panic attack.
Unless you are young or elderly, then you need to really be nervous
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The flu causes an estimated 9 million to 35 million illnesses, 140,000 to 710,000 hospitalizations and 12,000 to 56,000 deaths in the United States in a typical year, CDC says
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exactly 100 years ago, the United States saw the first waves of the worst modern flu pandemic, one that killed an estimated 675,000 Americans.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/01/22/yes-flu-season-brutal-but-its-not-worst/1055525001/
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The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.
It infected 500 million people around the world, including people on remote Pacific islands and in the Arctic, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million (three to five percent of the world's population), making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.
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