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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 4512979, member: 59677&quot;]For all that COVID-19 is horrid and deadly, it&#039;s not (yet) on the same scale as the past flu pandemics.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The 1968 flu pandemic killed 100,000 in the US / 1,000,000 world wide (<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1968-pandemic.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1968-pandemic.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1968-pandemic.html</a>) out of a world population a little over 3.5 billion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Against today&#039;s 7.8 billion population that&#039;s roughly 200,000 / 2,000,000 million. When the flu returned in 1969, it was a much weaker strain. We haven&#039;t seen any such indications for SARS-CoV-2.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1918, with a world population around 1.7B with 675,000 deaths in the US and 50,000,000 worldwide (<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html</a>) in three waves (Spring 1918, Fall 1918 and Late Winter 1919 (although don&#039;t forget that between the &quot;end&quot; of the 2nd wave in November 1918 and the start of the 3rd wave in February 1919, plenty of people died (including my great grandfather in December).</p><p><br /></p><p>Against today&#039;s 7.8B that&#039;s equivalent to 2.7M US and 200M world-wide. Again, when the flu returned in the fall of 1919 it was weaker.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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