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Blue_true

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4. Depending on what historical reference a person uses,

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2020, 12:43 AM

Jun 2020

SARS-COV-2 just became the second or third deadliest virus in USA history based upon the number of people that it killed. Either the 1957 H2N2 Flu (if the highest death toll is used for that Pandemic) and the 1918 H1N1 Flu (over 600,000 dead in the USA, was very hard on 20-40 year olds) stand ahead of SAR-COV-2 as a numerical killer in the USA.

There were viruses that killed a higher percentage of infected and one killed almost 10% of early New York City, but SARS-COV-2 has reached another regrettable milestone when it passed 116,000 killed in the USA.

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