And inexplicably there have been 50,000 less pneumonia deaths this year then usual.

Do you have a source for this? It seems a suspect number as there are usually fewer than 50,000 deaths per season in the US according to the CDC. A quick look at the CDC website shows their estimates of deaths (which do vary from year to year) a

2014/15 - 51,000
2015/16 - 23,000
2016/17 - 38,000
2017/18 - 61,000
2018/19 - 34,157
2019/20 - 24,000 to 62,000 (still preliminary)

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden...-estimates.htm