Why does H3N2 kill so many people in the year 2017 and 2018?

This makes it all too confusing. The media has a way, here in America, to invoke fear and panic and a sense of crisis management that is really doing the wrong thing by not just being factual and try not to be so alarmist just to get ratings. It's been like this for so long, I almost forgot what real news was once before all the hype.Still as we get older, we do feel more vulnerable to getting some form of illness or another and the news media is sometimes our only source of information. I still rate current major networks higher than those conspiracy channels on YouTube.

@lookatdesktop Indeed CNN is a good channel and the news is real, we had also some children diseases in France this year, it is just the tone of the news that seems too alarming.The flu kills people every year but to tell that this one "kills so many people" is exaggerated. If you want to read about the damages that a flu can do, the Washington Post had a good article about the flu of 1918, I give you the link. This one could kill in a few hours and did 50 to 100 millions victims through the world. Such a flu can happen again. I also feel more vulnerable than when I was younger. I got a flu this month, and I will probably do a flu shot next year.

@topffer , It has been approx. 12 days since I had my first symptoms, give or take a day or two. I still have a constant cough to clear my chest. I am hoping for improvement over the next few days or so. For myself and more so for my wife, who has it worse than I have.