CDC March 21, 2020 Update: 24,000 Influenza Deaths Including 155 Children This Season

From Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report, "Key Updates for Week 12, ending March 21, 2020:"

Key Points

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• Pneumonia and influenza mortality levels have been low, but 155 influenza-associated deaths in children have been reported so far this season. This number is higher than recorded at the same time in every season since reporting began in 2004-05, except for the 2009 pandemic.
• CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 39 million flu illnesses, 400,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu.

At the time of publishing this post, there were 100,392 Coronavirus cases and 1,543 deaths in the US. Let's hope deaths from the Coronavirus wil not reach the level of deaths from the Flu.

For the current numbers of Coronavirus cases and deaths:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/