How does the death toll from Covid-19 compare with that for the Spanish flu?
I did an earlier posting comparing the current coronavirus pandemic with the so-called Spanish flu.
We don’t know the death toll from the Spanish flu. It is usually estimated as between 20 – 50 million, but the lowest estimate is 17 million and the highest is 100 million. The current pandemic is far from over, but currently the death toll stands at just over 3.5 million.
The situation for Britain is interesting. The death toll from Spanish flu was 228,000. So far, the official death toll for Covid-19 is nearly 128,000 – one of the highest per capita rates in the world.