Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for … outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 43 countries imply flu-related deaths in 1918-1920 of 39 million, 2 …

1 Introduction -- 2 An Overview of Pandemics -- 3 The Spanish Flu in the News -- 4 Unequal Mortality during the Spanish … economy from unequal mortality to wages, housing and output. There is a general review of the literature but an important … mortality data is not affected by the First World War. Spain was also developed enough to have reliable data, but it was very …