Covid-19 Toll in U.S. Surpasses 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic Deaths
September 20, 2021
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as posted by the channelThe U.S.’s Covid-19 deaths have surpassed the toll of the 1918 influenza pandemic, a milestone many experts say was avoidable after the arrival of vaccines.
The U.S. has reported 675,446 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University data -- more than the 675,000 that are estimated to have died a century earlier.
The U.S. hits that deadly mark despite the widespread availability of Covid-19 vaccines, which were developed in record time in a display of the extraordinary advances in medical science in the past century. The inoculations have been passed up by some 70 million eligible Americans, many of the
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