Question: Is Covid 19 as bad as the Spanish flu?

Danny Hnatyshin answered on 24 Nov 2020:

In general it isn’t because it appears the fatality rate is not as high since we are a lot more knowledgeable about how to deal with disease than 100 years ago. So less people will likely die from covid in the end (spanish flu may have directly killed 50 million people). However, my guess is due to the connected world we continue to live it make take longer to fully go away, but that is me just speculating! Also we do not know what will happen with covid in the future since we are in the middle of the pandemic. If vaccines don’t give lasting immunity or covid mutates enough to reinfect people like the normal flu then things get a bit more complicated.