From a N.Y. Times article exploring the BEST and WORST scenarios for the virus in the United States:
And those would-be deaths will take place largely without funerals. Cremation was virtually unheard of in the 1918 epidemic, and as many as 675,000 Americans died, many many more worldwide.
"Now we get to the other end of the range of possibilities. Dr. Neil M. Ferguson, a British epidemiologist who is regarded as one of the best disease modelers in the world, produced a sophisticated model with a worst case of 2.2 million deaths in the United States.
I asked Ferguson for his best case. “About 1.1 million deaths,” he said.When that’s a best-case scenario, it’s difficult to feel optimistic."
And those would-be deaths will take place largely without funerals. Cremation was virtually unheard of in the 1918 epidemic, and as many as 675,000 Americans died, many many more worldwide.
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