"As of today, "at least 675,446 Americans have been confirmed to have died since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University,
with thousands of Americans lives still being lost each day.

"More than a century ago, the globe was left devastated by a pandemic that has been described by experts as 'the deadliest in human history.' The 1918 influenza pandemic killed an estimated 675,000 in the United States. Now, 18 months into the coronavirus pandemic, the virus has claimed more American lives than its counterpart a hundred years ago.

"Surpassing the 1918 death toll is a dismal enough milestone, but experts suggest there is a key difference between both pandemics that must be taken into account,
given modern day access to better medical treatments and vaccinations." ABC News

Domestically and globally, experts said, it will be crucial for vaccine uptake to increase, in order to blunt the impact of the coronavirus death toll."

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The original above image is a Getty Image from historical archives;
of an 1918 pandemic ambulance in St Louis, Missouri.