On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:48 AM Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:...That's another 98,000 deaths, around 342,000 total. That would be one of the worst epidemics in U.S. history. <end>
"The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third of the planet’s population—and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans. " https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic