The United States has now reached about 675,000 COVID-related deaths. That is the same number of Americans estimated to have been killed in the flu pandemic of 1918 and 1919. It bears noting that the population of the U.S. is now three times what it was a century ago which means the Spanish flu killed a much greater percentage of the population.
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