This article immediately claims that the Asian Flu in question was far deadlier than COVID. This is categorically false.
In fact, it's not even close. The article claims 116k US deaths attributable to the Asian flu. Meanwhile, there were 10x that number of excess US deaths during the COVID pandemic.
As others have pointed out, the AIER is a conservative think-tank. I don't know where they're getting their casualty numbers from, but it's not from any reputable source.
This is clearly biased garbage.
Edit: COVID directly caused 1.1 million verified deaths in the USA. We were second in the world in COVID deaths as a percentage of the population.
In fact, it's not even close. The article claims 116k US deaths attributable to the Asian flu. Meanwhile, there were 10x that number of excess US deaths during the COVID pandemic.
https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
As others have pointed out, the AIER is a conservative think-tank. I don't know where they're getting their casualty numbers from, but it's not from any reputable source.
This is clearly biased garbage.
Edit: COVID directly caused 1.1 million verified deaths in the USA. We were second in the world in COVID deaths as a percentage of the population.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality