Published 3 years ago

U.S. Covid-19 Death Toll Will Soon Surpass Spanish Flu

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COVID-19 has now killed more Americans than the Spanish flu, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918/1919 continues to have a much higher death count than the CO VID-19 pandemic. But the Black Death pandemic may have killed four times as many people as the Spanish Flu.

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Times of India

covid: More Americans lost to Covid-19 than 1918 flu pandemic

Johns Hopkins University tracker showed 675,722 US coronavirus deaths as of Friday, which surpasses the 675,000 US deaths during the influenza outbreak that began in the last year of World War I.

3 years ago·India

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Yahoo News

COVID has killed about as many Americans as the 1918

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the flu cut a much bigger, more lethal swath through the country. “Big pockets of American society — and, worse, their leaders — have thrown this away,” medical historian Dr. Howard Markel of the University of Michigan said of the opportunity to vaccin…

3 years ago·Los Angeles, United States

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News18 India

More Americans Lost to Covid-19 Than 1918 Flu Pandemic, Reveals Data as US Battles 4th Wave

Despite a century of medical advances, more Americans have now died from Covid-19 than the number who succumbed to the 1918 flu pandemic, according to new data.

3 years ago·India

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