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From the linked Healthline article about flu complications: The CDC estimates that between 3,000 and 49,000 people in the United States die each year from the flu. That said, the 2017-2018 flu season had an unusually high number of deaths in the United States: 79,000. The World Health Organization estimates that, globally, between a 290,000 to 650,000 people die from flu complications each year. During the 2017-2018 flu season, more than 49 million people got the flu and nearly 1 million were hospitalized in the United States.