{"id":4820,"date":"2020-03-09T09:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T13:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2020-03-09T09:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T13:24:28","slug":"flu-pneumonia-toll-in-the-u-s-57688-deaths-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/03\/09\/4820\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu &amp; Pneumonia Toll in the U.S.:  57,688 Deaths Per Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4821\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/p-i_deaths.png\" alt=\"P-I_Deaths\" width=\"1492\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the past two decades, influenza &amp; pneumonia has been the 8th leading cause of death in America.\u00a0 From 1999 to 2018, there were 1,153,761 deaths in the United States from influenza and pneumonia &#8211; an average of 57,688 deaths each year.\u00a0 The overall death rate from influenza and pneumonia, however, was higher two decades ago than in recent years.<br \/>\n<em>SOURCE:\u00a0 National Vital Statistics System, CDC WONDER.\u00a0 ICD-10-CM J09-J18.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two decades, influenza &amp; pneumonia has been the 8th leading cause of death in America.\u00a0 From 1999 to 2018, there were 1,153,761 deaths in the United States from influenza and pneumonia &#8211; an average of 57,688 deaths each year.\u00a0 The overall death rate from influenza and pneumonia, however, was higher two decades<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}