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Pandemics

Posted on August 14, 2020August 14, 2020

Covid-19 vs Past Pandemics

COVID-19 pandemic is the second deadliest pandemic in America, based on the numbers collated by Marshall Auerback. As of today, the US facility rate stands at 0.051 percent. 1918 influenza pandemic: 50 million deaths globally. World population: 1.8 billion, or 2.7 percent. US fatalities: 675,000 or 0.65 percent on a per capita basis out of … Continue reading Covid-19 vs Past Pandemics

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Om Malik is a a San Francisco-based writer, photographer, and investor. He has spent three decades in the trenches of Silicon Valley as a journalist, entrepreneur, and, more recently, as a venture capitalist. He has been writing about the commercial Internet since its birth. Read more

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