Table 1.

Mortality expressed in 3 ways*

	1918 Influenza	2020 COVID-19
Total deaths	675 000	620 000
Deaths per million	6136	1878
Total life years lost	21 600 000	1 860 000

*The calculated drop in US life expectancy from COVID-19 for the first half of 2020 was 1 year; that for the 1918 pandemic was almost 12 years.⁵