Let’s put it this way: Four years of history’s then deadliest conflict, The Great War, killed about 15 million people. This involved millions fighting each other with efficient weapons such as machine guns and chemical weapons. One year of the Spanish Flu from 1918-1919 killed an estimated 20-40 million people. My gosh, a dirty war and this flu. This would not be the time to be alive!

Over a quarter of Americans got infected, and there was a much higher mortality rate (2.5% vs 0.1% on average) compared to regular pandemics. As this was the worst pandemic in recorded history, it’s the only incident I have categorized as Code White.

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