https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1968-pandemic.htm...
> The estimated number of deaths was 1 million worldwide and about 100,000 in the United States.
Uh, "equivalent pandemic". I don't think so.
[ EDIT: Oh, and also: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-woodstock-pande... ]
The use and abuse of raw data has been a hallmark of the last 2.5 years. Whatever number makes Covid sound worse is the number that gets published and spread. Anything suggesting it isn’t as bad as predicted is buried as a conspiracy or “not peer reviewed”.
World population has grown by a factor of 2.3 since 1968. That would suggest a "population adjusted" death count of 230,000 for the 1968 "equivalent pandemic", a number less than 1/4 of COVID-19's US numbers.
US population has grown by a factor of 1.65 since 1968.That would suggest a "population adjusted" death count of 165,000 for the 1968 "equivalent pandemic", a number less than 17% of COVID-19's US numbers