[Robert DeLong]

We are 102 years past 1918, so that likelihood is extremely remote. we didn't even have a CDC back then. That wouldn't be born for another 30 years, 1948.

It killed 50 million people worldwide, or about a third of the world's population. There were no vaccine to protect against influenza infection and no antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections that can be associated with influenza infections, anywhere in the world. Control efforts worldwide were limited to non-pharmaceutical interventions such as isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants, and limitations of public gatherings, which were applied unevenly.

So, no your assertion is totally unfounded.

[Robert DeLong]

BTW, the total American casualty count was about 675,000 in the U.S.

[calenel]

“It killed 50 million people worldwide, or about a third of the world’s population.”

LOL, you might want to check that stat. The world’s population was a bit more than 50 million in 1918 and the mortality rate for the Spanish Flu was not 33%.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The Spanish Flu in 1918 “killed about a third of the world’s population”?

You may want to recheck your numbers. You sound like Joe Biden saying 150 million Americans were killed.

[dfwgator]

It killed 50 million people worldwide, or about a third of the world's population.

3 percent.