Covid-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1440081350074060800 From NBC News:
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.
The 1918-19 influenza pandemic killed 50 million victims globally at a time when the world had one-quarter the population it does now. Global deaths from Covid-19 now stand at more than 4.6 million.
Winter may bring a new surge, with the University of Washington’s influential model projecting an additional 100,000 or so Americans will die of Covid-19 by Jan. 1, which would bring the overall U.S. toll to 776,000.
Read the full report here. https://twitter.com/RamCNN/status/1440054995366211587
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