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1. engine+(OP)[view] [source] 2021-04-09 15:46:40
You're off by an order of magnitude.

Total deaths in WW2 estimated at approx 70 million. [1]

Johns Hopkins estimates COVID-19 deaths are approaching 3 million. [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

[2] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

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2. ericb+N5[view] [source] 2021-04-09 16:15:10
>>engine+(OP)
Mis-remembered. Number of Americans who died in WW2.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/03/9628119...

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3. engine+w8[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-04-09 16:28:23
>>ericb+N5
Roger that.

Americans killed in WW2: 410,000

Americans killed by Covid: 550,000

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