Not as bad as the Spanish flu isn't really assuring: > The global death toll was inconceivable: according to the most recent estimates, between 50 million and

Not as bad as the Spanish flu isn't really assuring: > The global death toll was inconceivable: according to the most recent estimates, between 50 million and 100 million people worldwide perished in the three pandemic waves between the spring of 1918 and the winter of 1919. Adjusting for population growth, that is equivalent to between 200 million and 425 million today.