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.

When comparing COVID-19 to the Spanish flu, which killed an estimated 675,000 in the USA, it's important to note that the U.S. population in 1918 was about a third of today's numbers.

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.

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.

In the case of the Spanish influenza, every victim was felled by an unusually lethal combination of hemagglutinin-1 and neuraminidase-1, or H1N1 for short. It didn’t knock off the usual suspects ...

That was about 0.001% to 0.007% of the world's population, so this pandemic was much less impactful than the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. About 80% of the deaths caused by swine flu occurred in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spanish flu deaths in Colorado. During that three-month span, Riding estimates 126 people died of the Spanish flu in Fort Collins. The outbreak slowed toward the beginning of 1919, ...

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.