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Originally Posted by Mr Quatro
My God the 2019-2020 flu season has already claimed 39 million people 
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"Claimed" usually means "killed".
In this case, there have been 39 million reported cases, not fatalities.
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There was a slight uptick in cases of influenza across the country during the week ending March 21, with an estimated 1 million Americans becoming infected. The added cases bring the total for the 2019-20 flu season to an estimated 39 million, according to the latest FluView report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The agency estimates that 400,000 Americans have required hospitalization for the flu -- up 10,000 from the prior week -- and 24,000 have died, including 155 children, which is a high since the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009.
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