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history occur in December 2020? (Snopes)Recent daily COVID-19 death totals are among the worst in U.S. history, but the graphic leaves out other terrible days, including the entire Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918.
It also leaves out hurricanes, an earthquake, the Jonestown flood, and D-Day during WWII, and doesn’t mention that an average of 8,000 Americans die every day from a variety of “natural” causes.The Galveston hurricane in 1900 is listed on the graphic.