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In 1918 and 1919, the novel H1N1 “Spanish flu” virus killed between 50 million and 100 million people—as much as 5 percent of the world’s population—mostly within a few months, making the ...

The Story of the Spanish Flu Ended Before the Virus Did. The Same Is Happening With the Covid Pandemic. This isn’t the first time society has struggled to make sense of the long tail of a pandemic.

About 675,000 people died in the United States during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and many of those public health lessons can apply to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

The next official cases, and the first instances of what health authorities now call community transmission, would hit the NT in November 1919, during Australia's second wave of the Spanish flu.

Each wave of the Spanish Flu seemed to be deadlier. By the third wave, contemporary reports stated the virus could kill a healthy person within a day.