Photos: How the 1918 flu and COVID-19 pandemics compare. As the U.S. surpass 675,000 COVID-19 deaths, we look back at the 1918 pandemic. By Radhika Chalasani. September 20, 2021, 12:00 AM.

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 ...

T he Covid-19 pandemic has become the deadliest disease event in American history, with a death toll surpassing that of the 1918 Spanish flu.. The Spanish flu was previously the disease event that ...

COVID-19 is now the deadliest disease in American history, surpassing the death toll of the devastating 1918 flu pandemic. More than 676,000 people in the United States have lost their lives to ...

Population: The US population is now triple what it was in 1918. So while the Covid-19 death toll may be higher, the 1918 flu pandemic apparently killed a higher proportion of Americans, Kissler said.

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 ...

Like influenza in 1918, covid-19 has spread across the globe, with disastrous consequences. As of May 10, more than 4.07 million people worldwide have been infected and 281,287 have died.

Experts are worried that despite the hard-won lessons of covid, we are not fully prepared for the next pandemic.

Pandemics – such as the 1918 influenza and Covid-19 pandemics – significantly affect how we work, play and socialize. These are the changes likely to stick around in the aftermath of Covid-19.

It began as a less deadly strain of the H1N1 flu in the spring of 1918, but it mutated to a more deadly variation in the summer. Mobilization during World War I spread it further.

A Woman Who Survived The 1918 Flu Dies After Contracting COVID Primetta Giacopini's life ended the way it began — in a pandemic. "I think my mother would have been around quite a bit longer" if ...