Only 18 Confirmed US Flu Deaths In 2001. What?!

"Doshi continued his assessment of published CDC flu-death statistics: “Between 1979 and 2001, [CDC] data show an average of 1348 [flu] deaths per year (range 257 to 3006).” These figures refer to flu separated out from pneumonia. This death toll is obviously far lower than the parroted 36,000 figure. But it would drop much lower, if you added the obvious need to confirm the presence of a flu virus in those cases."