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VIDEO: Comparing COVID-19 to History’s Deadliest Pandemics

23-3-2020 < 21st Century Wire 36 255 words
 


 SouthFront reports…



This video visualizes some of history’s most deadly pandemics, from the Antonine Plague to the ongoing Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The Novel Coronavirus outbreak started in China in December 2019. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020. The outbreak was officially declared a pandemic on March 11.



The featured pandemics by death toll:



  • Black Death (Bubonic Plague) – 200 million dead

  • New World Smallpox Outbreak – 56 million dead

  • Spanish Flu – 40-50 million dead

  • Plague of Justinian – 30-50 million dead

  • HIV/AIDS – 25-35 million dead

  • Third Plague – 12 million dead

  • Antonine Plague – 5 million dead

  • 17th Century Great Plagues – 3 million dead

  • Asian Flu – 1.1 million dead

  • Russian Flu – 1 million dead

  • Cholera Pandemics 1-6 – 1 million dead

  • Japanese Smallpox epidemic – 1 million dead

  • Hong Kong Flu – 1 million dead

  • 18th Century Great Plagues – 600 thousand dead

  • Swine Flu – 20 thousand dead

  • Yellow Fever – 100-150 thousand dead

  • Ebola – 11.3 thousand dead

  • COVID-19 – 14,705 (as of March 23)

  • MERS – 850 dead

  • SARS – 770 dead


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