The Coronavirus Has Killed More Americans Than Any Flu Season Since 1918

We’ve reached a grim coronavirus milestone

Robert Roy Britt
Elemental
Published in
3 min readMay 1, 2020

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A photo of an ambulance in front of a hospital entrance.
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By surpassing 116,000 this summer, Covid-19 deaths in the United States officially exceeded the number of total deaths from flu outbreaks or any other infectious disease outbreak in a single year or season since the 1918–19 influenza pandemic. And the Covid-19 death toll…

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Robert Roy Britt
Elemental

Editor of Wise & Well, independent health and wellness journalist, author of Make Sleep Your Superpower.