Here’s how Covid-19 ranks among the worst plagues in history

[Aragorn ll Elessar]

One year ago, China announced the first Covid-19 death. Now, the disease is among the 10 deadliest pandemics in history.

Plagues, ranked
Let’s be clear about this: Ranking all the plagues in human history is a nearly impossible task.

The historical record is often very scant, and some of the worst plagues in history — like the smallpox that swept the Americas after contact with Europe — occurred mostly in societies without written birth or death records, leaving historians stuck guessing at their overall impact.

And making comparisons across pandemics is tricky: The absolute number of deaths from a disease is, of course, the result of both how deadly the disease is and how many people there are. In 1300, the century of the Black Death, there were around 400 million people in the world. By 1918, when the Spanish flu hit, there were nearly 2 billion.

That said, there is enough information for us to compare the worst plagues in history, and there is consensus on the worst of the worst.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/21539483/covid-19-black-death-plagues-in-history

[mima]

Sammenligne dette viruset med pest?😄

Hadde man ikke hatt PCR testene hadde man ikke hatt en pandemi.