I'm actually trying to understand what happened here.

Old news in CNN, WashingtonPost, NewYorkTimes reporting over 80,000 US deaths 2017-2018 winter. The three of them say CDC is their source and give (now) death links to the CDC page.

They also talk about death numbers per season between 12,000 - 50,000. The news is about 2017-2018 being a bad year.

Go to the current CDC page. It reports 5,700 deaths for the same period. Can't find a year with over 6,000 deaths.

Has CDC changed its data? It's hard to believe all that media lied about CDC's report while linking to it.

no squizo plis


sources:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/26/health/flu-deaths-2017--2018-cdc-bn/index.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/last-years-flu-broke-records-for-deaths-and-illnesses-new-cdc-numbers-show/2018/09/26/97cb43fc-c0ed-11e8-90c9-23f963eea204_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/health/flu-deaths-vaccine.html

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden-averted/2017-2018.htm