( Reuters) – U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 60,000 on Wednesday and the outbreak will soon be deadlier than any flu season since 1967, according to a Reuters tally.
FILE PICTURE: Soldiers are quarantined while recovering from the Spanish flu at Camp Funston, Kansas, U.S. in1918 U.S. Army/Handout via REUTERS.
America’s worst influenza season recently remained in 2017-2018 when more than 61,000 individuals passed away, according to the U.S. Centers for Illness Control and Preventi here
The only deadlier influenza seasons remained in 1967 when about 100,000 Americans died, 1957 when 116,000 passed away and the Spanish flu of 1918 when 675,000 died, according to the CDC.
The United States has the world’s highest coronavirus death toll and an everyday average of 2,000 people passed away in April of the highly infectious breathing disease C