Thursday, June 20, 2013 by: Jon Rappoport
(NaturalNews) I now have the official CDC flu-death statistics for the year 2010.
They were provided to me by Martin Maloney, who, some years ago, contacted me to show how the CDC was lying all the way along the line about numbers of flu deaths. Many thanks, Martin, for your good work.
2010 is apparently the most recent year for which the CDC has issued a final report. It was released on May 13 of this year.
The report comes through a sub-agency of the CDC, the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS).
On page 89 of the report, "Deaths: Final Data for 2010," in Table 10, we find the following:
Influenza and Pneumonia [deaths]: 50,097.
Influenza [deaths]: 500.
Pneumonia [deaths]: 49,597.
In 2010, the CDC reports 500 deaths from the flu.
But the CDC PR people have trumpeted, over and over, that 36,000 people die every year in the US from the flu.
They've hyped this number, to emphasize how dangerous the flu is. They use the 36,000 number as a way to promote the flu vaccine. They use it to work for their pimps in the pharmaceutical industy.
Yet, their own numbers show 500 deaths in 2010, not 36,000.
Actually, if you dig below the surface of their PR, the CDC states in their literature that annual deaths from the flu range from about 3000 to 49,000.
This is obviously nowhere near the low 500-death figure for 2010.
And it isn't only 2010 that's at issue. In a recent article, I laid out how the CDC routinely reports, in the fine print, far fewer than 3000 flu deaths in a given year.
It gets even worse. When you break down that low figure of flu deaths per year in the US, you find that only a small fraction of those have been confirmed as the flu.
By confirmed, I mean tested for, in order to find a flu virus in the body of a person who has subsequently died. That is essential.
So for example, for the year 2001, the CDC, in its small print, listed 257 flu deaths. But of those, only 18 were confirmed to be the flu.
As you can see above, the CDC has a mortality category called "Pneumonia plus Influenza." They initially lump the numbers of deaths together. This gives the superficial impression of many deaths. Then, they break it down.
How do they justify that combination-category? They claim that many pneumonia deaths stem from the flu. They use a computer model to make the calculations.
But in conventional medical literature, there are at least 10 different types of pneumonia. Trying to model which ones stem from flu cases is a fool's errand.
The CDC is lying about about flu-deaths. Again.
They're trying, as usual, to inflate danger and promote it and sell vaccine. That's their real job. Our job is to protect ourselves and others from the government.
About the author:
The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon
was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of
California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an
investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics,
medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine,
Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon
has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic,
and creative power to audiences around the world.
www.nomorefakenews.com
(NaturalNews) I now have the official CDC flu-death statistics for the year 2010.
They were provided to me by Martin Maloney, who, some years ago, contacted me to show how the CDC was lying all the way along the line about numbers of flu deaths. Many thanks, Martin, for your good work.
2010 is apparently the most recent year for which the CDC has issued a final report. It was released on May 13 of this year.
The report comes through a sub-agency of the CDC, the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS).
On page 89 of the report, "Deaths: Final Data for 2010," in Table 10, we find the following:
Influenza and Pneumonia [deaths]: 50,097.
Influenza [deaths]: 500.
Pneumonia [deaths]: 49,597.
In 2010, the CDC reports 500 deaths from the flu.
But the CDC PR people have trumpeted, over and over, that 36,000 people die every year in the US from the flu.
They've hyped this number, to emphasize how dangerous the flu is. They use the 36,000 number as a way to promote the flu vaccine. They use it to work for their pimps in the pharmaceutical industy.
Yet, their own numbers show 500 deaths in 2010, not 36,000.
Actually, if you dig below the surface of their PR, the CDC states in their literature that annual deaths from the flu range from about 3000 to 49,000.
This is obviously nowhere near the low 500-death figure for 2010.
And it isn't only 2010 that's at issue. In a recent article, I laid out how the CDC routinely reports, in the fine print, far fewer than 3000 flu deaths in a given year.
It gets even worse. When you break down that low figure of flu deaths per year in the US, you find that only a small fraction of those have been confirmed as the flu.
By confirmed, I mean tested for, in order to find a flu virus in the body of a person who has subsequently died. That is essential.
So for example, for the year 2001, the CDC, in its small print, listed 257 flu deaths. But of those, only 18 were confirmed to be the flu.
As you can see above, the CDC has a mortality category called "Pneumonia plus Influenza." They initially lump the numbers of deaths together. This gives the superficial impression of many deaths. Then, they break it down.
How do they justify that combination-category? They claim that many pneumonia deaths stem from the flu. They use a computer model to make the calculations.
But in conventional medical literature, there are at least 10 different types of pneumonia. Trying to model which ones stem from flu cases is a fool's errand.
The CDC is lying about about flu-deaths. Again.
They're trying, as usual, to inflate danger and promote it and sell vaccine. That's their real job. Our job is to protect ourselves and others from the government.
About the author:
The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon
was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of
California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an
investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics,
medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine,
Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon
has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic,
and creative power to audiences around the world.
www.nomorefakenews.com