Last winter, about 80,000 people in the United States died of the flu and its complications, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
This was the highest death toll in at least 40 years. Experts said it was such a deadly season because it was driven by a strain of the flu that typically sends more people to the hospital and particularly hits children and the elderly hard, and the vaccine did not work very well against that strain. The flu season peaked in early February, and was basically over by the end of March.
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