Covid-19 Has Killed as Many Americans as the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic

The covid-19 pandemic has killed over 676,000 Americans , surpassing the estimated U.S. deaths from the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic . And despite rising inoculation rates , it looks like covid-19 is go to down a spate more Americans before this thing is over .

The U.S. report 208,713 new cases of covid-19 on Monday , with 2,262 fresh death from the disease , startling numbers being drive largely by unvaccinated Americans who are helping spread the highly catching Delta variant of the computer virus .

As NPRpoints out , the U.S. universe was roughly one - third in 1918 what it is today , mean that a larger percent of the population was wiped out by Spanish Flu . But covid-19 is far from over and still has plenty of time to kill more people .

In this Oct. 19, 1918 file photo provide by the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command a sign is posted at the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia that indicates, the Spanish Influenza was then extremely active.

The Spanish Flu pandemic , which circle the globe roughly four times in 1918 and 1919 , pour down an estimated 675,000 Americans before it fizzled out . An estimated 100,000 more Americans are expected to die out between now and the end of 2021 , based on model from theUniversity of Washington , meaning the U.S. death toll will in all probability be around 776,000 by January 1 , 2022 .

The U.S. startle with a howling lead on the rest period of the world early in 2021 with one of the best vaccination rates , along with the UK and Israel . But American vaccination against covid-19 have largely plateaued , with other countries around the world pulling beforehand in late month .

The U.S. had the18th bestcovid-19 vaccination rate in the cosmos back in July but fell to fortieth place as oflast week . Just 55.36 % of Americans have been fully vaccinated , concord toJohns Hopkins University .

Photo: Associated Press

Photo: Associated Press (AP)

The U.S. South has the bad vaccination charge per unit in the commonwealth , with states like Alabama suffering some of the worst end rate as a percentage of population in late months . Alabama reported 1,920 unexampled cases of covid-19 on Monday alone and has a seven - twenty-four hours pealing average of 76 deaths each day . Only 41.63 % of Alabama ’s population is full immunise .

More people in Alabama drop dead than were born in 2020 , all thanks to the covid-19 pandemic , a low-spirited figure that ’s a first in the state’srecorded history . The body politic show 64,714 deaths from all cause in 2020 , and 57,641 parentage , according toNPR .

But there was n’t a vaccinum for most of 2020 . There ’s a freely available vaccine to fight the covid-19 pandemic and if you have n’t gotten it yet , you really should . We do n’t have any excuses any longer .

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