Doctors and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that the Flu killed 80,000 people this past season and put 900,000 into the hospital, making it the worst influenza season in decades.

Until now, CDC has said flu kills anywhere between 12,000 and 56,000 people a year, depending on how bad the flu season is, and that it puts between 250,000 and 700,000 into the hospital with serious illness. But this last Flu season went far beyond that with some numbers that were shocking.

Influenza activity hit a high mark early this year, and the virus was infecting many people across the country all at the same time. Usually, flu hits first in one region and then another, but this past season saw widespread flu activity all at once, for weeks on end.

The CDC finally stopped trying to predict a peak as the flu season continued worsening. This past season hit the elderly and children the hardest.

And a record number of children died from influenza this past flu season with 172 child deaths reported for the 2017-18 flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

By any measure, this past flu season was a severe one, the CDC said. Flu activity stayed high in all 50 states, or nearly all, for weeks on end — an unusual pattern.

CDC experts described the 2017-2018 season as a high severity season, with influenza-like-illness remaining at or above baseline for 19 consecutive weeks, record-breaking flu hospitalization rates, and elevated pneumonia and influenza mortality for 16 weeks.

It’s not clear why this past influenza season was so severe.

A prophetic sign of the Last Days indicating the end of the age as foretold in the Bible prophecies is pestilence.

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