No. Because while it was actually happening it was kept “secret” because of WWI. Imagine, the press actually had some measure of responsibility then. It was called “Spanish Flu” because Spain was the only country actually reporting the deaths.
In the US and in the European countries fighting in WWI, Germany and France and England included, reports of the influenza outbreak, one of the worst and deadliest pandemics ever since the very worst of the “Black Death” outbreaks, were suppressed at the request of the governments, including ours, who feared it could adversely affect the war effort and recruitment efforts and with the cooperation of a willing press who agreed to not report or greatly down play the pandemic and number of deaths.
But Spain being neutral during the war was more free to report the many deaths and therefore it was long and incorrectly assumed that it was worse in Spain or even started there, and therefore and evermore, became to be known as the “Spanish Flu”.