{"id":4831,"date":"2020-03-11T19:48:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T23:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2020-03-11T19:48:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T23:48:22","slug":"3-out-of-4-flu-pneumonia-deaths-occur-among-seniors-age-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/03\/11\/4831\/","title":{"rendered":"3 out of 4 Flu &amp; Pneumonia Deaths Occur Among Seniors Age 75+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4830\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/flu_deaths_age.png\" alt=\"FLU_DEATHS_AGE\" width=\"1612\" height=\"524\" \/>Over the past 20 years (1999-2018), there were nearly one million deaths in the U.S. from influenza and pneumonia among Americans age 65 and over &#8211; accounting for 86% of all deaths from the illness over that time period.\u00a0 Nearly three in four deaths occurred among seniors age 75 and over.<\/p>\n<p><em>SOURCE:\u00a0 National Vital Statistics System, CDC WONDER.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 20 years (1999-2018), there were nearly one million deaths in the U.S. from influenza and pneumonia among Americans age 65 and over &#8211; accounting for 86% of all deaths from the illness over that time period.\u00a0 Nearly three in four deaths occurred among seniors age 75 and over. SOURCE:\u00a0 National Vital Statistics<\/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\/4831"}],"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=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}