When comparing COVID-19 to the Spanish flu, which killed an estimated 675,000 in the USA, it's important to note that the U.S. population in 1918 was about a third of today's numbers.

The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. has met the death toll from the Spanish flu in 1918-19. Above, a patient is taken on a stretcher into the United Memorial Medical Center after going through ...

U.S. death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 1918 Spanish flu pandemic 08:52. COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000.

The coronavirus pandemic on Monday officially eclipsed the so-called Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19 with the most deaths in this country since the formation of the United States.

The CDC calculated about 675,000 total deaths in the United States. Of those, about 195,000 happened during the second wave in October of 1918 . That is roughly 28% of all U.S. deaths.

The coronavirus pandemic is the most deadly in U.S ... an estimated 675,000 Americans died between 1918 and 1919 of H1N1 virus that came to be called the Spanish Flu when ... the U.S. death toll ...

On the global scale, the 1918 Spanish flu killed an estimated 25 to 50 million globally. The COVID-19 pandemic has killed 4.7 million people so far.

More Americans have died from the coronavirus pandemic than from the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic ... That figure surpassed the U.S. death toll from the 1918 influenza pandemic of approximately 675,000.

A New York Times analysis of US death patterns shows that the death rate in year one of the COVID-19 pandemic was the highest above normal ever recorded in the country, surpassing the toll of ...

A viral meme about the "Spanish flu" pandemic gets some general points right, ... We can say, however, that the U.S. saw close to 200,000 deaths from the pandemic in October 1918 alone.

Fauci did not blame mask use for any deaths that occurred during the 1918 Spanish flu. In fact, the paper mentioned in the above-displayed Facebook posts doesn't even mention masks.

Unprecedented. A radio announcer used that word Monday while talking about the region’s reaction to coronavirus. Yet a look back at 1918, to the so-called Spanish influenza pandemic, is a ...