[Taxacom] human death list

[Les Watling]

As the covid-19 pandemic was beginning to unfold a few persons on this list
put out ranked lists of deaths of humans from various things like the early
20th century flu pandemic, wars, and the like.

I am wondering if those who posted during the early days of the covid
pandemic a year ago have thought of updating their lists of major causes of
human deaths. I seem to remember there was some thought that this wasn't
going to be a very serious pandemic, but I could be wrong about that.

In any case, I am curious about where the covid-19 total death numbers rank
with other pandemics, wars, etc.

Best,
Les Watling
Professor, School of Life Sciences
216 Edmondson Hall
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI 96822
Ph. 808-956-8621
Cell: 808-772-9563
e-mail: watling at hawaii.edu