According to the New York Times and the CDC over 80,000 Americans died of the flu in the winter 2017/2018 flu season. Most died of H3N2.
According to Fortune the flu killed up to 4,000 Americans each week during the 2017/2018 season.
Please also see Wikipedia’s 2017–2018 United States flu season or the archive made today at https://web.archive.org/web/20200427193212/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017–2018_United_States_flu_season
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