But it’s important to keep in mind just how severe the Spanish flu outbreak was, and that while Covid-19 could get much worse, it would have to infect several thousand times as many people as it ...

Pound for pound, for instance, the 1918 to 1919 flu pandemic (sometimes and erroneously nicknamed the Spanish flu) was substantially more fatal than covid-19. Yes, both pandemics have killed at ...

Is COVID-19 worse than the 1918 Spanish flu? Study shows deaths in New York quadrupled in early months. In 2018, 650,000 of an estimated 7.5 billion people, or 0.009%, died of the seasonal flu ...

As Colorado marks another COVID-19 anniversary, the takeaway for historians and epidemiologists is as simple as it is jarring: Americans haven't learned the lessons from its Spanish flu history.

MarketWatch.com COVID-19 and 1918 ‘Spanish flu’ have one depressing thing in common A new working paper looks at the effects of the 1918 influenza and COVID-19 pandemics on mortality and the ...

Growing up and being educated in Ireland, I was well aware of the Great (Spanish) Flu and the enormous mortality it inflicted worldwide (“America Forgot the 1918 Flu. Will We Also Forget Covid ...