"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday substantially lowered its often-quoted estimate of how many people die in a typical flu season, to 24,000 from 36,000. Deaths attributed to flu fluctuated widely, from a low of 3,349 in the winter of 1986-7 to a high of 48,614 in 2003-4. In presenting the new numbers on Thursday, the centers urged journalists to stop using annual averages like 36,000 or 24,000 and to use more vague estimates like “tens of thousands of people may die.”"
This article is from the NY Times at
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/healt ... l?_r=1&hpw
Still no mention of vitamin C, vitamin D or other virus killing supplements, but it seems the CDC is using the most sensenational wording to instill fear in order to promote the flu vaccines.