Experts agree the Spanish flu occurred in multiple waves and that the second wave was significantly more deadly than the others. But it is false to attribute a specific number of deaths to each wave.

What's True. More people died during the 1918 flu pandemic than in all of WWI, with the majority of deaths occurring during the deadly second wave of the influenza outbreak.

Deaths related to COVID-19 in the U.S. have reached 676,000, surpassing the number that died during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. Until now, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention had ...

The claim: A study co-authored by Dr. Anthony Fauci found Spanish flu victims died from pneumonia caused by mask-wearing. Since the emergence of COVID-19, masks have become a way of life.

Another striking parallel between the two diseases is the victims. While most flu viruses strike the very young and very old, the Spanish flu affected many between the ages of 20 and 35.

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning ...

The flu victims remained untouched until 1951, when a team of scientists dug up the bodies, cracked open four cadavers’ rib cages, scooped out chunks of their lungs, and studied the tissue in a lab.

The coronavirus pandemic on Monday officially eclipsed the so-called Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19 with the most deaths in this country since the formation of the United States.

In 2009, a flu outbreak killed an estimated 284,000 worldwide, including 4,000 in the U.S. In 1968, H3N2 killed a million people worldwide, 100,000 in the U.S. Eleven years earlier, H2N2 killed ...

LIMA — In a span of seven hours, Charles Andrews lost his wife, 24-year-old Bessie, and his toddler daughter, Thelma, to the Spanish flu. Today, they rest together under a century-old tombstone ...

Fauci did not blame mask use for any deaths that occurred during the 1918 Spanish flu. In fact, the paper mentioned in the above-displayed Facebook posts doesn't even mention masks.

The U.S. reported 675,444 total confirmed coronavirus on Monday according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University, surpassing the number of Americans believed to have died during the Flu of 1918 ...