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

We’ve reached a grim coronavirus milestone

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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…