Sep 21, 2021 10:51:00

The death toll in the United States from the new Corona finally surpasses the 1918 Spanish flu

The new coronavirus that broke out in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019 quickly spread all over the world, and even at the time of writing the article, the momentum is unstoppable. It is reported that the ever-increasing death toll of the new coronavirus in the United States has exceeded the death toll

of the Spanish flu in 1918, which is said to be the largest pandemic in human history.

Covid overtakes 1918 Spanish flu as deadliest disease in US history
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The Spanish flu caused by the H1N1 flu is thought to have started with U.S. soldiers who traveled to Europe during World War I, and although there are various theories, there are more than 40 million people worldwide, and about 675,000 people limited to the United States. Is said to have died.

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According to the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) infected / dead tracker by medical news site STAT, the death toll in the United States at the time of writing was 675,975 in 608 days, the Spanish flu. Lined up with the number of deaths.

However, it is said that the population of the United States in 1918 was about one-third of the current population, and the Spanish flu is higher than COVID-19 in terms of 'mortality rate'. Another difference is that in the case of COVID-19, most of the deaths are elderly, while the average age of deaths from the Spanish flu is 28 years, which is quite young.

On the other hand, STAT says, 'Modern medicine is far more advanced than in 1918.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can be used for patients with COVID-19 lung dysfunction. , There was no ECMO in 1918. ' Also, in the United States, vaccination with the new coronavirus vaccine began at the end of 2020, which is one of the situations different from the Spanish flu.

According to STAT, the death toll in the Civil War was

about 750,000 in a 2011 study , which would make the COVID-19 pandemic the most life-threatening event in American history after the Civil War. I'm trying.

Howard Markel, director of the Center for Medical History, Faculty of Public Health, University of Michigan, said, 'The reason so many people were killed in the COVID-19 pandemic was that the United States was not adequately responding to the early stages of the spread.' indicate. 'I think it's well known around the world that the United States didn't do a very good job in the early stages of a pandemic,' said Dr. David Morence of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, agreeing with Markel. doing.

'The 1918 pandemic wasn't that deadly within two years, but I don't know what this COVID-19 will be. The actual death toll of COVID-19 in the United States is probably It will be more than the number of deaths announced. ' Some studies estimate that COVID-19 may kill about 10% more in the United States than it really is.

'The truth is, the current situation we are in is historically unprecedented. We stopped referring to 1918 as a guide to our current actions and the future. We should think positively from 2021 as a guideline for action. '