Trump’s Suspect Spanish Flu Claims
Published Date: 3/25/2020
Source: factcheck.org
President Donald Trump recently said "close to 100 million people died" from the 1918 Spanish flu, and that "if you got it you had a 50/50 chance, or very close, of dying." But 100 million is a high-end estimate of global deaths from that influenza pandemic, and we found no evidence the case fatality rate for those who had it was 50%. The post Trump’s Suspect Spanish Flu Claims appeared first on FactCheck.org.