The Spanish flu epidemic from 1918-19 killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide.
The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. has reached 675,000, approximately the same number of Americans who died from the Spanish flu epidemic from 1918-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
"Big pockets of American society—and, worse, their leaders—have thrown this away," medical historian Dr. Howard Markel of the University of Michigan said of the opportunity to vaccinate everyone eligible by now. Under that optimistic scenario, schoolchildren would get mild illness that trains their immune systems. As they grow up, the children would carry the immune response memory, so that when they are old and vulnerable, the coronavirus would be no more dangerous than cold viruses.
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