Think about the flu pandemic of 1918, the worst pandemic in world history — even worse than the plague, the Black Death of 1666-1667, which took some 100,000 lives. The pandemic of 1918, called the "Spanish Flu," killed at least 40,000,000 people worldwide, including 675,000 Americans. That influenza was caused by a variant of the H1N1 virus. The world has now gone through another terrible pandemic, the SARS-Covid-19 virus. Since this pandemic began in December of 2019, it has killed 3,837,000 p
