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How the 1918 flu pandemic ended

Explain It to Me

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What Is the Story of the Spanish Flue?

The main point is it killed tens of millions. Probably the best estimate first voiced by nobel laureat mc Farlan burnett, and pretty much firmed by most epidemiological studiess Killed at least 50 million people, possibly a hundred million people. And that was in a world with a much smaller population. Ah, if you wad just wher population would be the equivalent of 225 to 450 million people to day. So thank god it's bad as covid is, we are not facing that.

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