Worst Pandemics In History

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1. The Black Death: 75-200 million.
2. AIDS Pandemic: 36 million.
3. 1918 Flu Pandemic: 20-50 million.
4. Plague of Justinian: 25 million.
5. Antonine Plague: 5 million.
6. Asian Flu: 2 million.
7. 1968 Flu Pandemic: 1 million.
8. 1890 Flu Pandemic: 1 million.
9. Third Cholera Pandemic: 1 million.
10. Sixth Cholera Pandemic: 800,000.

2020 Covid-19 "Pandemic": 13,000 worldwide. 390 in the USA.

Number of deaths last winter from flu when there was no alarm, no panic, no pandemic? 80,000.

Typical year: 40,000.

CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in the U.S. - STAT

Outbreak: 10 of the Worst Pandemics in History - MPH Online

Encephalitis lethargica more of an epidemic rather than pandemic. There is a book out called Asleep by Molly Caldwell Crosby--that I can't read until I finish the book I'm currently reading. I think that is in the background of the 1918 one. I think there was 3 times it came around in history and the "sleeping sickness" is the real story behind Sleeping Beauty.