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ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn The world has COVID-19 more than a century after the 1918 flu pandemic. • 17 min read Grim new milestone: US reaches 400,000 COVID-19 deaths New strains of COVID-19 are emerging, including one from England that could become a dominant virus. Another strain could be responsible for new outbreaks in California.Apic/Getty Images Editors note: Some of the images below are animations showing two images and may take longer to load. There are strong parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the 1918 flu pandemic, considered to be the deadliest of the 20th century. ....
Lessons From the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on How to Celebrate the Holidays Amid COVID-19 Time 12/21/2020 Sentinel. On Dec. 14, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 reached a grim, new milestone: 300,000 Americans killed. That’s nearly half of the 675,000 Americans killed a century ago during the 1918 flu, the deadliest pandemic in the 20th century, as historian Christopher Nichols pointed out on Twitter. The current wave of COVID-19 infections is the worst it’s been nationwide and, as TIME reported, cases are expected to continue to rise after Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The rapid spread today is in stark contrast to this time more than a century ago in 1918. After a first wave in the spring, a deadlier and more contagious second wave hit in early fall. Cities that quickly implemented control measures (mask mandates, closures of schools and public places, etc.) and kept them in place longer, saw lower death rates compared to cities that took fewer of thes ....