Showing posts with label Spanish flu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spanish flu. Show all posts
Monday, November 28, 2022

Life insurance payouts soared past $100 billion in 2021 as pandemic took over 800,000 total US lives by year end

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 Payouts rose 11% in 2021 to $100.19 billion, most likely due to the pandemic, according to the American Council of Life Insurers. The incre...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

Hospitalization data from the states worst affected by COVID-19 show two distinct waves of the pandemic, the second more severe in California and Texas and less severe in New York and Florida

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Florida, Texas and California all lagged the outbreak in New York, but the experience of all four coincide in the second wave, which is clea...
Friday, August 21, 2020

The COVID-19 death toll in NYC pales in significance compared with previous epidemics there, and that's as bad as it gets in the US this time around, at least so far

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Deaths per 1000: Cholera 1832: 46 Cholera 1834: 36 Cholera 1849: 46 Dysentery/Smallpox 1851: 38 Cholera/Smallpox 1854: 45 S...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Rush Limbaugh, The Big Fat Idiot, imagines Vitamin D was known during the Spanish Flu Epidemic when it wasn't even first theorized until 1922

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In the Face of COVID-19, We’re Not Acting at All Like Americans : In the Spanish flu, ’17, ’18, ’19, 1917, much death. Do you know that t...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Gramps, born in 1926, says this is worse than 2008

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Dad will be 94 this year if the coronavirus doesn't get him first. He's been through a lot, seen it all. Darmouth graduate. Ser...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Rush Limbaugh is a fool and an imbecile, says coronavirus epidemic is just the common cold, kills fewer than the flu

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Here : The coronavirus is the common cold, folks. ... The survival rate of this is 98%! You have to read very deeply to find that numb...

Coronavirus death rate climbs to 3.3%, just shy of minimum estimated Spanish flu pandemic death rate 100 years ago

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A minimum of 17 million died worldwide in the Spanish flu pandemic 100 years ago when 500 million globally were infected, yielding a minimu...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

Get your affairs in order: If Harvard professor is correct about global coronavirus pandemic, expect 68-136 million deaths worldwide in 2020, dwarfing deaths from ordinary influenza

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Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch  told The Wall Street Journal  that "it's likely we'll see a global pandemic" of co...