Four senators sold stocks before coronavirus threat crashed market

[Harpy Eagle]

Senator Richard Burr Warned Of Coronavirus Effects In Private Meeting - Intelligence Chairman Raised Virus Alarms Weeks Ago, Secret Recording Shows

So, Burr let the fat cats know what was coming while the rest of us were being treated like mushrooms...kept in the dark and fed bullshit.

Did Burr make any public appearances on Fox News or any other media outlet in that timeframe?

If he was communicating a different message to the public, that would be one thing.

Burr spoke to his big donors on February 27. Just two days before I started this topic: Brace Yourselves For Another Stock Market Dive On Monday

I had the same knowledge as was available to the rest of the public. So I would not go so far as to say Burr was committing "insider trading".

But if he was telling the public not to worry while telling his donors shit was about to hit the fan, then he should be recalled.

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

The 1918 influenza virus was killing young people. The SARS-2 coronavirus is killing old people. The demographic is significantly different.

I am not the one that made the comment...do try and keep up.

 

[g5000]

Senator Richard Burr Warned Of Coronavirus Effects In Private Meeting - Intelligence Chairman Raised Virus Alarms Weeks Ago, Secret Recording Shows

So, Burr let the fat cats know what was coming while the rest of us were being treated like mushrooms...kept in the dark and fed bullshit.

Did Burr make any public appearances on Fox News or any other media outlet in that timeframe?

If he was communicating a different message to the public, that would be one thing.

Burr spoke to his big donors on February 27. Just two days before I started this topic: Brace Yourselves For Another Stock Market Dive On Monday

I had the same knowledge as was available to the rest of the public. So I would not go so far as to say Burr was committing "insider trading".

But if he was telling the public not to worry while telling his donors shit was about to hit the fan, then he should be recalled.

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

The 1918 influenza virus was killing young people. The SARS-2 coronavirus is killing old people. The demographic is significantly different.

Younger Adults Make Up Big Portion of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in U.S.

 

[Osiris-ODS]

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

Except that "information" is completely inaccurate. This virus is nothing like the 1918 H1N1 virus. That virus was so devastatingly lethal that it killed 1/3 of the people infected (33% mortality rate) and had a high mortality rate for young and healthy people, including in the 20-40 age group.

It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.
​

CDC: History of 1918 Flu Pandemic | Pandemic Influenza (Flu) | CDC

There has never been anything even close to as deadly as the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. The mortality rate and factors of this virus are similar to other coronviruses, in that the mortality rate in the US is currently around 1% and mortality risk is high in the elderly and persons with compromised immune systems.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

Senator Richard Burr Warned Of Coronavirus Effects In Private Meeting - Intelligence Chairman Raised Virus Alarms Weeks Ago, Secret Recording Shows

So, Burr let the fat cats know what was coming while the rest of us were being treated like mushrooms...kept in the dark and fed bullshit.

Did Burr make any public appearances on Fox News or any other media outlet in that timeframe?

If he was communicating a different message to the public, that would be one thing.

Burr spoke to his big donors on February 27. Just two days before I started this topic: Brace Yourselves For Another Stock Market Dive On Monday

I had the same knowledge as was available to the rest of the public. So I would not go so far as to say Burr was committing "insider trading".

But if he was telling the public not to worry while telling his donors shit was about to hit the fan, then he should be recalled.

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

I was looking at economic data to make my assessment. The biggest signal to me was China's PMI had dropped to 35.7. I called that a "real shit show".

Anyone could have seen this coming.

Not everyone did.

Just a few days ago, a poster on this forum was denying the stock market has crashed!

Talk about willfully blind!

And now capital turns yet again to socialism to bail itself out.

The bailout has to be bigger because we are already in a massive hole created by socialist policies.

That's the thing about socialism. It feeds on itself.

"The Road To Serfdom".

Sure, so socialism tanked your capitalism, so your most staunch freemarketeers howl for more socialism to save themselves from socialism.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

Except that "information" is completely inaccurate. This virus is nothing like the 1918 H1N1 virus. That virus was so devastatingly lethal that it killed 1/3 of the people infected (33% mortality rate) and had a high mortality rate for healthy people in the 20-40 age group.

It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.
​

CDC: History of 1918 Flu Pandemic | Pandemic Influenza (Flu) | CDC

There has never been anything even close to as deadly as the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. The mortality rate and factors of this virus are similar to other coronviruses, in that the mortality rate in the US is currently around 1% and mortality risk is high in the elderly and persons with compromised immune systems.

No, that's not what the science says and you will one day have the hindsight with this emerging pandemic like the ones you try to wrangle an apples-oranges comparison out of here.

 

[depotoo]

"There will be, I'm sure, times that communities, probably some in North Carolina, have a transmission rate where they say, 'Let's close schools for two weeks. Everybody stay home.'"

vs.

“Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low. … When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero. That’s a pretty good job we’ve done."

Oh, so you think he should have mimicked Trump? Is that what you have a problem with?
Trump Says Virus Has Spread ‘Very Slowly’ in U.S. (1:14 p.m. HK)
The coronavirus has spread “very slowly” in the U.S., President Donald Trump said in a tweet.

“So, the Coronavirus, which started in China and spread to various countries throughout the world, but very slowly in the U.S. because President Trump closed our border, and ended flights, VERY EARLY, is now being blamed, by the Do Nothing Democrats, to be the fault of ‘Trump,’” he said.
Korea Cases Top 2,000; Nigeria Confirms Infection: Virus Update

“We are ready whether it will be a breakout of larger proportions or at that very lower level. Which we want to keep it that way.”
"I don't think it's inevitable. It probably will. It possibly will. It could be at a very small level or it could be at a larger level. Whatever happens, we're totally prepared," the president told reporters.
Trump taps Pence to head up coronavirus outbreak response
At the same time as having appointed a new task force.

So, he tries to keep calm, and states it could get to a large level, hopes it doesn’t, and also had appointed a task force.

So, once again you try to twist things into him denying it. You really look foolish.

 

[Muhammed]

Did Burr make any public appearances on Fox News or any other media outlet in that timeframe?

If he was communicating a different message to the public, that would be one thing.

Burr spoke to his big donors on February 27. Just two days before I started this topic: Brace Yourselves For Another Stock Market Dive On Monday

I had the same knowledge as was available to the rest of the public. So I would not go so far as to say Burr was committing "insider trading".

But if he was telling the public not to worry while telling his donors shit was about to hit the fan, then he should be recalled.

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

I was looking at economic data to make my assessment. The biggest signal to me was China's PMI had dropped to 35.7. I called that a "real shit show".

Anyone could have seen this coming.

Not everyone did.

Just a few days ago, a poster on this forum was denying the stock market has crashed!

Talk about willfully blind!

And now capital turns yet again to socialism to bail itself out.

The bailout has to be bigger because we are already in a massive hole created by socialist policies.

That's the thing about socialism. It feeds on itself.

"The Road To Serfdom".

Sure, so socialism tanked your capitalism, so your most staunch freemarketeers howl for more socialism to save themselves from socialism.

 

[g5000]

Did Burr make any public appearances on Fox News or any other media outlet in that timeframe?

If he was communicating a different message to the public, that would be one thing.

Burr spoke to his big donors on February 27. Just two days before I started this topic: Brace Yourselves For Another Stock Market Dive On Monday

I had the same knowledge as was available to the rest of the public. So I would not go so far as to say Burr was committing "insider trading".

But if he was telling the public not to worry while telling his donors shit was about to hit the fan, then he should be recalled.

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

I was looking at economic data to make my assessment. The biggest signal to me was China's PMI had dropped to 35.7. I called that a "real shit show".

Anyone could have seen this coming.

Not everyone did.

Just a few days ago, a poster on this forum was denying the stock market has crashed!

Talk about willfully blind!

And now capital turns yet again to socialism to bail itself out.

The bailout has to be bigger because we are already in a massive hole created by socialist policies.

That's the thing about socialism. It feeds on itself.

"The Road To Serfdom".

Sure, so socialism tanked your capitalism, so your most staunch freemarketeers howl for more socialism to save themselves from socialism.

Socialism has been a ball and chain on the leg of American capitalism for decades.

 

[Osiris-ODS]

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

Except that "information" is completely inaccurate. This virus is nothing like the 1918 H1N1 virus. That virus was so devastatingly lethal that it killed 1/3 of the people infected (33% mortality rate) and had a high mortality rate for healthy people in the 20-40 age group.

It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.
​

CDC: History of 1918 Flu Pandemic | Pandemic Influenza (Flu) | CDC

There has never been anything even close to as deadly as the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. The mortality rate and factors of this virus are similar to other coronviruses, in that the mortality rate in the US is currently around 1% and mortality risk is high in the elderly and persons with compromised immune systems.

No, that's not what the science says and you will one day have the hindsight with this emerging pandemic like the ones you try to wrangle an apples-oranges comparison out of here.

It wasn't my comparison. Read the statement in GG's post. That's where the comparison was made. My point is these two viruses are not even comparable other than to say they are both pandemic viruses.

 

[g5000]

Don't get me wrong. I'm perfectly okay with some forms of a social safety net. I'm cool with Social Security, but I believe it is WAY past time to raise the eligibility age to 70 and index it to 9 percent of the population going forward.

I'm not a total dick.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

I was looking at economic data to make my assessment. The biggest signal to me was China's PMI had dropped to 35.7. I called that a "real shit show".

Anyone could have seen this coming.

Not everyone did.

Just a few days ago, a poster on this forum was denying the stock market has crashed!

Talk about willfully blind!

And now capital turns yet again to socialism to bail itself out.

The bailout has to be bigger because we are already in a massive hole created by socialist policies.

That's the thing about socialism. It feeds on itself.

"The Road To Serfdom".

Sure, so socialism tanked your capitalism, so your most staunch freemarketeers howl for more socialism to save themselves from socialism.

Socialism has been a ball and chain on the leg of American capitalism for decades.

American capital always runs to socialism when American capitalism crashes, and it does so cyclically.

 

[g5000]

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

Except that "information" is completely inaccurate. This virus is nothing like the 1918 H1N1 virus. That virus was so devastatingly lethal that it killed 1/3 of the people infected (33% mortality rate) and had a high mortality rate for healthy people in the 20-40 age group.

It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.
​

CDC: History of 1918 Flu Pandemic | Pandemic Influenza (Flu) | CDC

There has never been anything even close to as deadly as the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. The mortality rate and factors of this virus are similar to other coronviruses, in that the mortality rate in the US is currently around 1% and mortality risk is high in the elderly and persons with compromised immune systems.

No, that's not what the science says and you will one day have the hindsight with this emerging pandemic like the ones you try to wrangle an apples-oranges comparison out of here.

It wasn't my comparison. Read the statement in GG's post. That's where the comparison was made. My point is these two viruses are not even comparable other than to say they are both pandemic viruses.

The Spanish flu is estimated to have had a 2.5% mortality rate.

C-19 is estimated to be around 2 percent.

Since no measures were taken to contain the Spanish flu outbreak, it infected about 1/3 of the world's population. With a 2.5% mortality rate, it knocked off somewhere between 50 and 100 million people.

A 1/3 infection rate today would mean 2.5 billion infected. 2 percent mortality means 51 million dead.

Thus the current panic.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

Except that "information" is completely inaccurate. This virus is nothing like the 1918 H1N1 virus. That virus was so devastatingly lethal that it killed 1/3 of the people infected (33% mortality rate) and had a high mortality rate for healthy people in the 20-40 age group.

It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.
​

CDC: History of 1918 Flu Pandemic | Pandemic Influenza (Flu) | CDC

There has never been anything even close to as deadly as the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. The mortality rate and factors of this virus are similar to other coronviruses, in that the mortality rate in the US is currently around 1% and mortality risk is high in the elderly and persons with compromised immune systems.

No, that's not what the science says and you will one day have the hindsight with this emerging pandemic like the ones you try to wrangle an apples-oranges comparison out of here.

It wasn't my comparison. Read the statement in GG's post. That's where the comparison was made. My point is these two viruses are not even comparable other than to say they are both pandemic viruses.

The 1% mortality bit is premature ejaculatory.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

Except that "information" is completely inaccurate. This virus is nothing like the 1918 H1N1 virus. That virus was so devastatingly lethal that it killed 1/3 of the people infected (33% mortality rate) and had a high mortality rate for healthy people in the 20-40 age group.

It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.
​

CDC: History of 1918 Flu Pandemic | Pandemic Influenza (Flu) | CDC

There has never been anything even close to as deadly as the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. The mortality rate and factors of this virus are similar to other coronviruses, in that the mortality rate in the US is currently around 1% and mortality risk is high in the elderly and persons with compromised immune systems.

No, that's not what the science says and you will one day have the hindsight with this emerging pandemic like the ones you try to wrangle an apples-oranges comparison out of here.

It wasn't my comparison. Read the statement in GG's post. That's where the comparison was made. My point is these two viruses are not even comparable other than to say they are both pandemic viruses.

The Spanish flu is estimated to have had a 2.5% mortality rate.

C-19 is estimated to be around 2 percent.

Since no measures were taken to contain the Spanish flu outbreak, it infected about 1/3 of the world's population. With a 2.5% mortality rate, it knocked off somewhere between 50 and 100 million people.

A 1/3 infection rate today would mean 2.5 billion infected. 2 percent mortality means 51 million dead.

Thus the current panic.

Cite the 2% please.

 

[g5000]

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

Except that "information" is completely inaccurate. This virus is nothing like the 1918 H1N1 virus. That virus was so devastatingly lethal that it killed 1/3 of the people infected (33% mortality rate) and had a high mortality rate for healthy people in the 20-40 age group.

It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.
​

CDC: History of 1918 Flu Pandemic | Pandemic Influenza (Flu) | CDC

There has never been anything even close to as deadly as the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. The mortality rate and factors of this virus are similar to other coronviruses, in that the mortality rate in the US is currently around 1% and mortality risk is high in the elderly and persons with compromised immune systems.

No, that's not what the science says and you will one day have the hindsight with this emerging pandemic like the ones you try to wrangle an apples-oranges comparison out of here.

It wasn't my comparison. Read the statement in GG's post. That's where the comparison was made. My point is these two viruses are not even comparable other than to say they are both pandemic viruses.

The Spanish flu is estimated to have had a 2.5% mortality rate.

C-19 is estimated to be around 2 percent.

Since no measures were taken to contain the Spanish flu outbreak, it infected about 1/3 of the world's population. With a 2.5% mortality rate, it knocked off somewhere between 50 and 100 million people.

A 1/3 infection rate today would mean 2.5 billion infected. 2 percent mortality means 51 million dead.

Thus the current panic.

Cite the 2% please.

That was the original estimate, which fueled the initial panic.

Study of 72,000 COVID-19 patients finds 2.3% death rate

 

[g5000]

A few days ago: Lower death rate estimates for coronavirus provide glimmer of hope - STAT

In a rare piece of good news about Covid-19, a team of infectious disease experts calculates that the fatality rate in people who have symptoms of the disease caused by the new coronavirus is about 1.4%.


Reducing the mortality rate from 2 percent to 1.4 percent means 36 million deaths if 1/3 of the population was infected.

(edited to correct my math)

 

[Osiris-ODS]

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

Except that "information" is completely inaccurate. This virus is nothing like the 1918 H1N1 virus. That virus was so devastatingly lethal that it killed 1/3 of the people infected (33% mortality rate) and had a high mortality rate for healthy people in the 20-40 age group.

It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.
​

CDC: History of 1918 Flu Pandemic | Pandemic Influenza (Flu) | CDC

There has never been anything even close to as deadly as the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. The mortality rate and factors of this virus are similar to other coronviruses, in that the mortality rate in the US is currently around 1% and mortality risk is high in the elderly and persons with compromised immune systems.

No, that's not what the science says and you will one day have the hindsight with this emerging pandemic like the ones you try to wrangle an apples-oranges comparison out of here.

It wasn't my comparison. Read the statement in GG's post. That's where the comparison was made. My point is these two viruses are not even comparable other than to say they are both pandemic viruses.

The 1% mortality bit is premature ejaculatory.

It's ranged between 1.x% and 4% depending on whether it's calculated it globally or in the U.S., and whether it's calculated from the beginning or for a specific range of time (as things change with treatment and response, etc).

My point in the prior post was simply to note that the 1918 H1N1 virus was orders of magnitude more deadly than COVID-19. Comparative to the highest mortality rate calculable for COVID-19 using global numbers from day 1 -- which is less than 4% -- the 1918 H1N1 strain had a 33% mortality rate and infected 500 million people globally.

 

[g5000]

If one third of the US was infected:

2 percent mortality would be 2,181,333 dead.

1.4 percent mortality would be 1,526,933 dead.

And they would all vote for Biden from their graves...

 

[g5000]

you had this information....


There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," he said, according to a secret recording of the remarks obtained by NPR. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic."

Except that "information" is completely inaccurate. This virus is nothing like the 1918 H1N1 virus. That virus was so devastatingly lethal that it killed 1/3 of the people infected (33% mortality rate) and had a high mortality rate for healthy people in the 20-40 age group.

It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic.
​

CDC: History of 1918 Flu Pandemic | Pandemic Influenza (Flu) | CDC

There has never been anything even close to as deadly as the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. The mortality rate and factors of this virus are similar to other coronviruses, in that the mortality rate in the US is currently around 1% and mortality risk is high in the elderly and persons with compromised immune systems.

No, that's not what the science says and you will one day have the hindsight with this emerging pandemic like the ones you try to wrangle an apples-oranges comparison out of here.

It wasn't my comparison. Read the statement in GG's post. That's where the comparison was made. My point is these two viruses are not even comparable other than to say they are both pandemic viruses.

The 1% mortality bit is premature ejaculatory.

It's ranged between 1.x% and 4% depending on whether it's calculated it globally or in the U.S., and whether it's calculated from the beginning or for a specific range of time (as things change with treatment and response, etc).

The highest mortality rate calculable for COVID-19 using global numbers from day 1 is still orders of magnitude lower than the 1918 H1N1 pandemic, which had a 33% mortality rate and infected 500 million people globally.

The 1918 pandemic had an estimated mortality rate of 2.5 percent. Not 33 percent.

It is estimated that 33 percent of the world was infected.

 

[g5000]

Infection Rate
Another similarity is how quickly both viruses seem to spread. Spanish flu infected an estimated 1/3 of the global population. And although much remains unknown about COVID-19, the disease has spread rapidly from its origin in China in late December and now can be found on every continent except Antarctica.

Mortality Rate May Be Similar for Coronavirus (COVID-19)
The death rate of Spanish influenza was vastly greater than the average seasonal flu, Dr. Taubenberger said. The case-fatality rate is estimated to have been greater than 2.5%. This means for every 100 recognized cases, on average more than two and a half people died.

What 1918 Spanish Flu Death Toll Tells Us About COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic - MedicineNet Health News