[justjim]

OP, my guess we didn’t know how many people died during these earlier pandemic’s until after they were over and done. The technology was not available to daily/weekly/monthly to track the pandemic’s. Perhaps mediation efforts, like we have today, would have saved many more lives. If we had done nothing with the Coronavirus, let it run it’s course, it seems reasonable thousands more Americans would likely have died. I suspect many conspiracy theories will come out of Coronavirus, books will be written, and money will be made because such conspiracy writings are the type of books/articles that people love to read.