The Scandemic

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[–]One_Jack_Move 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Seems so, approximately.

I wanted to expand on how much worse the Spanish Flu was, but estimates vary so much from study to study that it's silly to say much more than it was significantly worse. As /u/TheJamesRocket mentioned below, the the 1918 world population may have been higher than OP's image suggests. If experts can't even agree on what the population was in 1918, anyone's guess at the specific mortality of the Spanish Flu is pretty questionable.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Not to mention the large number of deaths that were from Aspirin, which was the miracle treatment at the time, and was overprescribed and killed so many people through liver and kidney malfunction