COVID-19 has the potential to be as deadly as the 1918 flu

By Yasemin Saplakoglu The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to become more deadly than the 1918 flu pandemic, a new study suggests. Remembered as the deadliest pandemic in recent history, the 1918 influenza pandemic infected one-third of the world’s population and killed at least 50 million people, 675,000 of them in the U.S., according to the Centers for …