The CDC says 80,000 people died from the flu last year
That makes the 2017–2018 flu season one of the deadliest in the United States

TERRIBLE TOLL An estimated 80,000 Americans died — and 900,000 were hospitalized — during the 2017-2018 flu season, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
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