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
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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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