Investigators Challenge CDC Flu Statistics As Season Draws To Close

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The CDC has been justifying its calls for universal flu vaccination by quoting shamelessly exaggerated figures of deaths from the flu. Although the propaganda for flu vaccinations is pervasive, some cracks are starting to appear in the public perception of the actual importance of the threat.

With Chiron bombing out as one of only two suppliers of Flu vaccines to the US, cutting available vaccine doses by roughly half the total number, there were no lines when restrictions were finally loosened and vaccines were more freely made available earlier this year.

Flu vaccines contain the mercury based "adjuvant" thimerosal, which has been blamed for an increase of Autism and other problems of brain development. There are also questions about the effectiveness of the flu vaccination in protecting people from "getting the flu" - see here and here.

As this year's flu season draws to a close, some investigators have pooled their resources. They went to look at the actual statistics on flu related deaths, as opposed to the 36.000 deaths bandished about in press releases and found some astonishing numbers. Jon Rappoport's excellent site nomorefakenews.com carries an article on this, which I would like to bring to your attention.

Read here what the actual statistics are saying...

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THE TRUTH ABOUT FLU-DEATH STATS IN THE CDC CIRCUS OF LIES

APRIL 28, 2005. Before the various recent flu scandals drop completely below the radar, I wanted to dig some material out of my archive and compile it and post it.

This is all about actual deaths from flu in the US every year, as opposed to the propaganda figures the CDC trots out each flu season.

In press conferences, the CDC routinely floats 36,000 (or more) as the number of annual flu deaths in the US. But when you go to the CDC’s own sites, you find a completely different picture.

We’ll get to that a little later. First, let’s go with a simple chart from the American Lung Association, a chart I posted in October of 2004. Here is the article I wrote then:

OCTOBER 22, 2004. Ask the American Lung Association. Better yet, read their own report from August of 2004, titled, "Trends in Pneumonia and Influenza/Morbidity and Mortality."

This report comes from "Research and Scientific Affairs/Epidemiology and Statistics Unit." At the bottom of the document, the source is listed as: National Center for Health Statistics, Report of Final Mortality Statistics, 1979-2001.

Get ready for some surprises, especially since the CDC keeps trumpeting flu-death annual numbers as 36,000. Like clockwork. Year in and year out. 36,000 people in the US die from the flu every year. Killer disease. Watch out. Get your flu shot. Every autumn. Don't wait. You might fall over dead in the street.

Here are the total flu deaths from the report. From 1979 to 1995, the stats were released every two years.

1979: 604
1981: 3,006
1983: 1,431
1985: 2,054
1987: 632
1989: 1,593
1991: 1,137
1993: 1,044
1995: 606
1996: 745
1997: 720
1998: 1,724
1999: 1,665
2000: 1765
2001: 257

Don't believe me?

Here is the page [as of October, 2004]:

Get the file and go to page 9 of the document. Then start scrolling down until you come to the chart for flu deaths as a separate category.

Recently, Tommy Thompson, head of US Health and Human services, stated that 91 percent of the people who die from the flu in the US every year are 65 and older. So you might engage in a little arithmetic and figure out how many people under 65 are really dying from the flu each year.

But no matter. The raw all-ages stats are low enough. Quite low enough. Quite, quite.

Do you see what is going on here?

You can go into my archive and read recent pieces on this subject and find my argument for those who blithely claim, "Well, harumph, you see, uh ah, flu often leads to pneumonia and THAT'S why we have to be so careful about the flu. Deaths from pneumonia are large numbers, harumph, blah blah blah..."

It's a straight con, folks. The CDC is on a streetcorner with a little table, and there are shills walking around repeating the 36,000-death figure while the PR flacks at the table are working the vaccine angle.

The crowd is getting restless. A man shouts, "Where is my flu shot? We're all going to die!"

Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Congress is planning a measure that will guarantee vaccine manufacturers annual billion-dollar payoffs no matter how many doses are left over, unused.

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Now let’s go to an AP story that appeared a few days before I posted my Oct. 2004 article above:

“Thompson [Tommy Thompson, head of Health and Human Services] said the flu vaccine supply will be reallocated to parts of the country where it is needed most. Most at risk for severe complications from the flu are seniors and young children.

"’We are looking all over the regions to find out where there is a shortage, and we will redeploy the resources to make sure the seniors get the vaccine first,’ he said. He noted that 91 percent of flu deaths last year were people 65 or older.”

Do the math. If the true death stats from the flu are as stated by the American Lung Association, how many people under the age of 65 actually die from the flu in the US every year? Take the year 2000: 1765 deaths. Using Thompson’s guideline, subtract the people over 65 who died from the flu, and you get a remainder of 177 people in the US under the age of 65 who died from the flu in the year 2000.

Now let’s go to an even earlier post of mine…Oct. 11, 2004. This was, as I recall, a very busy day for me on the site. I had three researchers contacting me: John Keller, John Cullison, and Martin Maloney. Keller had broken the whole hoax first at the Cure Zone, and I had picked up on it there.

UPDATE Oct.11, 2004, 12:25PM, Pacific Time: More from John Cullison that confirms the Keller report on ACTUAL very low CDC stats for flu deaths in the US. Cullison writes:

I've found the preliminary data for 2002. It's at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_13.pdf. It's in THIS document that Keller's instructions make sense. Sure enough, on page 16, Influenza (J10-J11) is listed as 753 [deaths], and Pneumonia (J12-J18) accounts for the other 65,231 cases.

UPDATE: October 11, 2004, 12:30PM, Pacific Time: Here is another source, Martin Maloney, who has tracked the CDC page address cited by Keller. He offers his succinct confirmatory finding:

Perhaps this is what you are looking for. Near the bottom of page 31 of that PDF document, you will find, under the heading:

Table 10. Number of deaths from 113 selected causes by age: United States, 2001 - Con.

//snip//

Influenza and pneumonia (J10-J18) ........... 62,034
Influenza (J10-J11) ................................. 257
Pneumonia (J12-J18) ............................... 61,777

These researchers, mind you, were looking at the CDC’s own data on the CDC sites.

At some point in 2004, another researcher came on board. I withhold his name, at his request. He found another way to get into CDC site data, and I was able to track that and confirm the very, very low death-stats for flu.

There was another hurdle to cross for me. CDC people and doctors around the US had a fixed idea about the flu. One of those “everybody knows this is true” ideas. It is: FLU OFTEN LEADS TO PNEUMONIA, AND EVEN THOUGH THE ACTUAL FLU-DEATH STATS MAY BE LOW, THE DEATHS FROM PNEUMONIA ARE QUITE HIGH. THEREFORE YOU CAN DISCOUNT THE ACTUAL FLU-DEATH STATS AND GO TO THE PNEUMONIA STATS.

Is this idea correct?

I began searching through the CDC’s own data.

At the end of October, 2004, I found what I was looking for. Here is an excerpt from my article on flu and pneumonia. It begins with a blockbuster about the flu itself, and then gets into the flu-pneumonia connection:

…I spotted, this morning, a letter to the editor at RedFlagsWeekly.com, from Randy L. Powers. He provides a link to a CDC website, where deaths from flu and flu-plus-other-stuff are broken down for the year 2000.

You can go to Red Flags, scroll all the way down the center of the page to the bottom and pick up the link to the letters section, and find Randy's letter and his live link to the CDC pdf file. [probably not there anymore]

Or you can follow this link.

And then you would go to pages 1068-1071.

Either way you do it, you'll come across a bunch of tables that list flu-death stats for the year 2000. You'll need to