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Coincidentally, total US deaths from COVID-19 recently surpassed the highest estimates of US deaths from the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic.
by NoGravitas 5y ago
Coincidentally, total US deaths from COVID-19 recently surpassed the highest estimates of US deaths from the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoIsn’t that related to the USA having much more people in 2020 than 1920?
- mizzack 5y agoPopulation is over 3x what it was in 1918. Your argument framed relatively instead of absolutely: "COVID has only killed a third as many Americans as the Spanish flu"
- hpoe 5y agoWell I'd love a source on that but even if true the population of the IS during that time was only 103 million so %-wise that still is still only 1/3 Sauce: https://alltrendsonline.com/what-was-the-population-of-the-united-states-in-1918/ https://alltrendsonline.com/what-was-the-population-of-the-u...
- refurb 5y agoWell our population is 3x higher but beyond that, I’d love to see the long term trend in deaths. I assume (based on other countries data) that we’re basically accelerating deaths in the 80+ year old group, heavily weighed to the sick. So basically same as the flu in 2018 when 100,000 Americans died. If 5 years from now we see a dip in deaths we’ll know we didn’t kill of a segment of health in population but rather accelerated the deaths of the morbid elderly by a year or two. Not to say those deaths aren’t tragic but it’s very different than 800,000 deaths of people j the prime of their lives.