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COVID deaths in the U.S. surpass those of the 1918-19 Spanish Flu

The New York Daily News - 9/20/2021

The coronavirus pandemic on Monday officially eclipsed the so-called Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19 with the most deaths in this country since the formation of the United States.

The United States hit 675,446 people felled by the pathogen that naysayers have deemed no worse than the flu, surpassing the 675,000 who died in the Spanish flu epidemic early last century.

The difference between this year and last year, when the pandemic began, is that most of the current fatalities are among unvaccinated people, making the heartbreaking tally unnecessary. In addition a direct comparison between the raw numbers doesn’t give the whole story, medical experts and statisticians say.

A direct comparison between the two numbers doesn’t tell the whole story, given that in 1918 the U.S. population was just over 100 million, whereas it’s 330 million today, making our death rate one in 500 Americans as opposed to the 1918 toll of one in 150.

A major difference between now and then is the availability of preventative vaccines, as well as medicines to fight secondary infections.

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