The coronavirus pandemic in the United States has claimed more lives than the Spanish flu epidemic

On September 20, Johns Hopkins University staff published a report on the situation with the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.

The evidence stubbornly points to COVID-19 having a larger impact on the American nation than the Spanish flu epidemic of a century ago.

Researchers compared the number of victims of the Spanish flu in the United States with the number of deaths from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

In less than two years that a new type of coronavirus infection has been ruling the Earth, more people have died in the United States than in 1918-1919 from the Spanish flu.

According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 675,000 Americans died from influenza in the last century.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has already killed 675,885 Americans.

It is known that the official statistics of victims of the Spanish flu epidemic are considered inaccurate.

It only gives an idea of ​​the scale of the century-old tragedy. It is believed that many more people in the world have died from the consequences of the disease (from 50 to 100 million).

For the United States, the Spanish Flu epidemic became the deadliest epidemic in the country’s history.

However, scientists are not encouraging and draw attention to the fact that along with the spread of the “delta” coronavirus, the number of victims currently continues to grow.

The situation is most acute in the southeastern states, because vaccination there has been low.

According to the US CDC, the average death rate from COVID-19 per day over the past 7 days has exceeded 2 thousand people.