Covid-19 overtakes 1918 Spanish flu as deadliest disease in American history(statnews.com)
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Covid-19 overtakes 1918 Spanish flu as deadliest disease in American history
https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/20/covid-19-set-to-overtake-1918-spanish-flu-as-deadliest-disease-in-american-history/
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Misleading title: they killed the same absolute number of Americans, but our population now is over 3 times what it was then, so COVID is less than 1/3 as deadly.
No - COVID killed 4-5M, The Spanish Flu killed 50-80MM last time I checked.
these is why 'real news' is as fake as fake news
For those complaining about the comparison, they did at least mention it:
>>> Comparing events that happened more than a century apart has its perils. For instance, the population of the United States in 1918 was a third of what it is now. So as a percentage of the national population, the Spanish flu deaths still has the lead on Covid-19.
>>> Comparing events that happened more than a century apart has its perils. For instance, the population of the United States in 1918 was a third of what it is now. So as a percentage of the national population, the Spanish flu deaths still has the lead on Covid-19.