John Delaney 🇺🇸 @JohnDelaney
Population adjustments for these events is important. The population of the US during 1918 was about 100mm, so in today's numbers the 1918 flu killed over 2 million people For civil war in today's #'s it would be 6 million For WWII, it would be 1 million in today's numbers — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Baker @peterbakernyt
Mass casualty events: Influenza pandemic, 1918-20: 675,000 Civil War: 600,000 WWII: 400,000 Coronavirus, 2020:… https://t.co/yCkUIFcehR