COVID has killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 flu

The ebbing of COVID-19 could happen if the virus progressively weakens as it mutates and more and more humans’ immune systems learn to attack it. Vaccination and surviving infection are the main ways the immune system improves. Breast-fed infants also gain some immunity from their mothers.

“We will all get infected,” Antia predicted. “What’s important is whether the infections are severe.”Something similar happened with the H1N1 flu virus, the culprit in the 1918-19 pandemic. It encountered too many people who were immune, and it also eventually weakened through mutation. H1N1 still circulates today, but human immunity acquired from infection and vaccination has triumphed.

In many ways, the 1918-19 flu — which was wrongly named Spanish flu because it first received widespread news coverage in Spain — was worse. Medical historian Dr. Howard Markel of the University of Michigan said he is continually astounded by the magnitude of the disruption the pandemic has brought to the planet.

Just under 64% of the U.S. population has received as least one dose of the vaccine, with state rates ranging from a high of approximately 77% in Vermont and Massachusetts and lows around 46% to 49% in Idaho, Wyoming, West Virginia and Mississippi.has received at least one dose, according to Our World in Data, with some African countries just beginning to give their first shots.

The current vaccines work extremely well in preventing severe disease and death from the variants of the virus that have emerged so far.

🇺🇸 COVID19 DEATHS in the United States 🗓️ September 24, 2021 | 2:32 AM EST 🚨 702,978 Americans have DIED of COVID19 🖥️ | CoronaScanner CDCgov US_FDA WHCOVIDResponse NIH WHO HHSGov AmerMedicalAssn

It’s juts too bad that medicine and science haven’t advanced in the last 100 years. Shucks.

Can still get and spread covid with the vaccine. Just “lighter symptoms”. You do you. I’ll do me.

Going to blame the Spanish flu in Trump too?

COVID is just like the flu, they said. “Spanish” was conveniently excluded. Get the shot.

Now do number of deaths from abortion in 2020-21. Is that number higher than 1918-19, too?

Welcome to BidensAmerica. Pray you live to see another day.

Not like there’s an over inflation of numbers or anything. 🤦🏽‍♂️🙄 This just flu, what about phenomena deaths? Or even common cold deaths of elderly? Numbers don’t lie or add up!

Not comparable. We’ve been at this govt disaster for almost two years. Dumb journalism. Do better.

Should anyone tell people we have like 8 times the population we did then...

bringbackglam GOP helped Covid kill these Americans

Lies

The system is the sickness.

Died *with* Covid.

The Covid 19 numbers are pretty rough estimates as well..

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China. Drops covid. Then tells the world they actually are broke and in stupid debt. China. Next they will invade smaller countries for resources to try to acquire quick money. Then ww3.

As our nation passes 43 Million cases & 675,000 deaths: 18 months ago 👉Republicans backed Trump as he 👉rejected all intelligence, medical & scientific reports 👉& announced to our nation the number of Covid US cases would soon dwindle down to ZERO

It's funny that this so called deadly virus that killed more than ww1 hardly gets a mention in old encyclopedias. 😕

The global death toll is much lower than 1918-1920. That’s due to modern medicine & drugs. However in America ignorance trumps modern medicine! Because the Covid death toll in the USA is higher than 1918-1920!

And ap do kids get a Spanish flu vaccine shot ? are people required to get vaccine against Spanish flu h1n1 virus ? No, they certainly do not, do they

That number seems low given the red states fudging the s. It’s likely way higher.

Given knowledge about vulnerabilities in the elderly as well and the steady growth in avg life expectancy in the same century, the deaths comparison and discussion in the article tends on a morbid affair.

Good news is..... we somehow cured the flu !

I don't think they counted the deaths the same way

I had a feeling it would, sadly. It's very unfortunate that many souls have died. 😡

Lol. No it hasn’t. The people that contracted Spanish flu actually died of Spanish flu. People catching Covid and have a bunch of other health issues that speeds up their death isn’t the same.

I feel like I’d die from the Spanish flu than the Wu flu

stevesilberman A grim milestone, but a reminder of how much worse the Spanish Flu - which everyone soon forgot - had been.

Keep up the propaganda to keep the sheep in fear!!!!!

Republican governors who continue to reject sound science and medical knowledge in favor of their own partisan positions should be charged for murder - one count for every death in their state.

The GQP are about 1/3 of the way there.

Definition of a Covid death 'Anyone who has died for any reason, after having tested positive for Covid within 28 days' This distorted nonsense did not exist with the Spanish flu.

But they had no vaccines or treatments. What’s our excuse?

Nominal comparisons are typically disingenuous.

Pandemics will do that

“Overall Number” wise maybe…. Not percentage wise. Not even close.

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