“Little Souls” by Sandra Dallas is a wonderful read about the Spanish influenza. The story is set in Colorado in the early 1900s. People were afraid to go to restaurants or church for fear of getting ...
EUGENE, OR -- A 103-year-old Oregon woman is fearlessly taking on her second pandemic. Bernice Homan recently received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. She lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, ...
Deaths related to COVID-19 in the U.S. have reached 676,000, surpassing the number that died during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. Until now, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...
The 1918 influenza pandemic is the deadliest in recorded history, killing roughly 50 million globally and about 675,000 in the U.S.—though this number has been surpassed by COVID-19 deaths in the U.S.
This month, COVID-19 officially became the deadliest outbreak of infectious disease in American history, eclipsing the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed 675,000 Americans over two years. This grim ...
Since early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged both across the U.S. and the world, various photographs of masks worn during the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic were shared online, as we noted with ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has now killed roughly the same amount of people who died from the 1918 Spanish flu. According to Johns Hopkins, more than 675,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. The Centers ...
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Why Is It Called Spanish Flu?

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — We have hit an unwanted milestone. COVID-19 has now killed more Americans than the 1918 Spanish flu, making this our country’s deadliest pandemic. If history has taught us ...