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Originally Posted by LewisM
And a reality check for some of the more sensitive persuasion...
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Those statistics come to 62,425 people per day or 22.8 million per year.
The 1918 H1N1 Spanish Flu pandemic killed an estimated 40 to 100 million people when the world population was only 1.9 billion.
Today the world population is 7.8 billion, or 4.1 times larger than it was in 1918.
So if the world population in 1918 had been 7.8 billion, perhaps the death toll would have been 164 to 410 million people from the H1N1 virus.