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- Title
Historical Comparison Between the Death Rate for Spanish Flu and Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Italy.
- Authors
Mattiuzzi, Camilla; Lippi, Giuseppe
- Abstract
A study comparing the death rates of the Spanish flu and COVID-19 in Italy found that the Spanish flu had a significantly higher death rate. The Spanish flu affected a population of 36.280 million people and caused 390,000 deaths, while COVID-19 affected a population of 59.236 million people and caused 77,165 deaths in the first year. The risk of dying from the Spanish flu was over 8 times higher than the risk of dying from COVID-19 before the nationwide rollout of COVID-19 vaccination. The study confirms that the Spanish flu pandemic was more deadly than the pandemic caused by COVID-19.
- Subjects
ITALY; INFLUENZA pandemic, 1918-1919; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; DEATH rate; CORONAVIRUS diseases
- Publication
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2024, Vol 229, Issue 6, p1928
- ISSN
0022-1899
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/infdis/jiae115