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How many people were impacted by the Spanish flu?

In total, 500 million people (or one-third of the world's population) became infected with this virus. The Spanish Flu killed around 20 million to 50 million people (about 3% of the global population). This was more than the number of people who died in the First World War!*

These were the countries that were affected the worst [3]:

Country	Number of Deaths
India	12–17 million (about 5% of the population)
Russia	450,000–2.7 million**
Iran	902,000–2 million (8% to 22% of the total population)
Indonesia (then called the Dutch East Indies)	1.5 million
USA	500,000–850,000
France	400,000
Brazil	300,000
South Africa	300,000 (6% of the population)
Spain	260,000 (1% of the Spanish population)
Britain	250,000
Canada	50,000

	Spanish Flu	COVID-19
They are not the same disease	The virus that caused the Spanish flu was an influenza virus (A/H1N1)	The virus that causes COVID-19 is a coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)
The worst affected age groups are different	It affected children younger than 5, and seniors over 65, and was also deadly for healthy young people between 20-40 years old	While people of all ages can get infected, most of the serious cases have been in people above 65, or those with underlying medical conditions
Where it came from is not the same	No one knows where it originates, but the first cases were in Kansas, in the United States, in March 1918	Cases were first reported in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province, in Dec 2019
The origin of the viruses is different	It is an avian flu virus that likely came from birds	It is thought to have originated in animals, likely bats
The mortality rate is very different	The global death-to-case ratio was around 10% worldwide	The death-to-case ratio is 2.2% worldwide, based on Johns Hopkins University statistics (as of April 2021)
How they are treated is different	There were no effective vaccines, antivirals, or antibiotics, and it was mainly handled through measures like quarantine and social distancing	While there is no specific, effective treatment for COVID19, there are many ways to manage it apart from social distancing and quarantines, such as oxygen support, antivirals, plasma transfusions, and most importantly, vaccines.

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