While we stand by pretty much everything in this video, we did want to acknowledge one thing that we, in hindsight, got at least somewhat incorrect. Early in the video, we stated that a difference between COVID-19 and the 1918 Influenza pandemics was that the latter was more deadly. When it was originally released in December of 2020, that looked to be the case-there had been 270,000 deaths in the United States as of the date the script was written, about 340,000 on December 31,2020, about 2,650 in Kentucky, and only 33 in Pike County. These numbers were well below the levels seen during the 1918 Flu which were about 293 in Pike County, 14,000 in Kentucky, and 675,000 in the U.S. However, a year has gone by and we've had additional waves and the arrival of new variants. Today, we find that we have now lost 233 Pike Countians, over 12,000 Kentuckians, and 820,000 Americans with each of those numbers continuing to rise. So, while the per capita death numbers are still significantly lower than those from the 1918 Flu, it no longer seems completely clear to say that one is “more deadly” than the other, and we wanted to acknowledge that. In retrospect, we wish we’d either been more precise or that we had left that statement out altogether.
