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		JoshuaDavid on Nov 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for d... > The worst flu killed 80k people in a year I think you're about 3 orders of magnitude off. COVID is pretty bad, but the 1918 flu was horrifyingly awful. Flus can get pretty bad.

heavyset_go on Nov 8, 2020 [–]

I was thinking of the 2017/2018 flu season which killed 80k in the US. H1N1 tends to get singled out as itself, Spanish Flu or swine flu.

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