COVID Scale

A bot designed to put the #COVID19 pandemic's effect on the United States into historical perspective. Stats from @Worldometers

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 14,302 1986 Cerritos mid-air collisions which killed 82 people in 1986: https://t.co/euUD35YrFF

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 61,726 Long Creek air disasters which killed 19 people in 1944: https://t.co/Uh5QuHt6dk

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 4,528 Cherry Mine disasters which killed 259 people in 1909: https://t.co/mV0P3zRQRm

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 469 Peshtigo Fires which killed 2,500 people in 1871: https://t.co/iLc2UAkzjY

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 40,441 Thiokol-Woodbine explosions which killed 29 people in 1971: https://t.co/CN9OVtmvNd

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 10,110 1918 San Fermin earthquakes which killed 116 people in 1918: https://t.co/kdX4TOR62A

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 10,661 ValuJet Flight 592s which killed 110 people in 1996: https://t.co/PWfOwmEbxs

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 18,325 Connellsville train wrecks which killed 64 people in 1903: https://t.co/GC0hVLuEoo

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 27,274 Northwest Airlines Flight 705s which killed 43 people in 1963: https://t.co/ptnT1KvSNn

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 10,198 Los Angeles flood of 1938s which killed 115 people in 1938: https://t.co/u80vwcai26

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 4,748 Flint?Worcester tornado outbreak sequences which killed 247 people in 1953: https://t.co/51uZUUrluj

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 37,832 Gasconade Bridge train disasters which killed 31 people in 1855: https://t.co/AihrAl6mlJ

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 46,912 Hamlet chicken processing plant fires which killed 25 people in 1991: https://t.co/rPxRG151iS

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 5,404 EgyptAir Flight 990s which killed 217 people in 1999: https://t.co/vm6JSUPzmN

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 2,932 SS Central America, 1857s which killed 400 people in 1857: https://t.co/ecyFs98A5K

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 26,062 Bath School disasters which killed 45 people in 1927: https://t.co/FVnrqfRGKv

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 14,845 Frankford Junction train wrecks which killed 79 people in 1943: https://t.co/OjvaSG5npU

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 53,309 Cal Poly football team plane crashs which killed 22 people in 1960: https://t.co/WsfFPV1z8h

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 22,553 United Airlines Flight 608s which killed 52 people in 1947: https://t.co/PNj3V5li4L

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Since the start of the pandemic, 1,172,801 Americans have died from #COVID19 (17.0% of all deaths worldwide). That is about the same as 12,610 Malbone Street Wrecks which killed 93 people in 1918: https://t.co/fCtngwEUn0