COVID-related deaths had a greater impact on the city’s mortality rates in 2020 than the Spanish flu pandemic had on 1918 death rates, alarming new statistics released by the city’s Department ...

This, subsequent research has suggested, caused most of the deaths in the 1918 flu outbreak ... The case fatality rate of the Spanish flu is often cited as 2.5 percent, but this is likely a ...

The President pushed back on comparisons between the coronavirus pandemic and the 1918 pandemic commonly called the “Spanish ... of the mortality rate for the 1918 flu pandemic vary widely ...

Coronavirus deaths might be comparable to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, researchers said ... medicine are responsible for a lower mortality rate than the 1918 pandemic, but if left untreated ...

These comparisons will be more insightful if we understand whose deaths were (and were not) included in the count of victims during the “Spanish ... 1918, must differentiate between totals and ...

It was the Spanish flu. Its death toll is unknown but is generally considerd to be more than 50 million. "The death rate in 1918 was very high ... somewhere between 2 and 2 1/2%," Nancy Bristow ...

Two other claims suggesting a second Spanish flu pandemic wave ... accurate statistics for the flu epidemic in 1918 and seasonal flu mortality rates. But COVID-19 has been deadlier than either ...

That's what it was like during the year-long 1918 Spanish ... flu struck adults between the ages of 20 to 40. Children and older adults, who usually have weaker immune systems, suffered fewer deaths.

A flu virus as deadly as the one that caused the 1918 Spanish flu could kill as many as 81 million people worldwide if it struck today, a new study estimated. By applying historical death rates to ...

The increase in deaths in New York City during the early months of the covid-19 pandemic rivals the death toll there at the peak of the 1918 flu ... the death rate, while the flu pandemic nearly ...

The President pushed back on comparisons between the coronavirus pandemic and the 1918 pandemic commonly called the “Spanish ... of the mortality rate for the 1918 flu pandemic vary widely ...