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Dang what could possibly explain this phenomenon??????? (hexbear.net)
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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Whoah did people in the US die like that in WWI? Or is that the "Spanish" flu?

[–] Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

https://www.paho.org/en/who-we-are/history-paho/purple-death-great-flu-1918#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20lost%20675%2C000,but%20they%20were%20too%20late.

The United States lost 675,000 people to the Spanish flu in 1918-more casualties than World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined. Pharmaceutical companies worked around the clock to come up with a vaccine to fight the Spanish flu, but they were too late.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's way less than covid deaths, damn.

[–] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Population was way smaller

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

My guess would be the flu pandemic since "only" a little over 100k Americans died in WW1