They have been lying for decades. I found an old huffington post article that told how the pharma companies were not getting enough people to take flu vaccines. So they went to the CDC, and the CDC was happy to help. They recatagorized all pneumonias as flu. Even though pneumonia is caused by flu only 7% of the time. So even though flu deaths had been about 300 per year, they dishonestly jumped to 30K! The article was written like they were quite proud of this little lie scare tactic.