[John W]

The 1918 flu pandemic killed about 650,000 Americans and about 20-40 million worldwide.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Yes. I was thinking about the 1000 dead mentioned. (...the United States reels from...over 1,000 deaths)

Wikipedia informs: “In Philadelphia for example, 4,597 people died in the week ending October 16 [1918].”

[netmilsmom]

>>The 1918 flu pandemic killed about 650,000 Americans and about 20-40 million worldwide<<

With WWI soldiers cramped into ships, no tamiflu and no antibiotics for secondary infections.

Our medicine and circumstances are not sitting in 1918.