This Week's Top Stories - Coronavirus Deaths Surpass Spanish Flu, New Zealanders Smuggle KFC & More
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 surpasses that of the 1918 Spanish flu, New Zealand police arrest men suspected of smuggling fried chicken, and a belief in ghosts skyrockets.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:02.5 | The coronavirus pandemic, the only thing that's gone on longer than someone explaining |
| 0:14.9 | Bitcoin to you. |
| 0:15.9 | In fact, it's gone on so long it just broke a 100 year old record. |
| 0:20.9 | COVID-19 is now the deadliest pandemic in our nation's history. |
| 0:25.1 | That grim distinction was made official by Johns Hopkins University. |
| 0:29.1 | On Monday, the U.S. surpassed 675,000 COVID-related deaths, which is more than the estimated U.S. |
| 0:35.3 | fatalities from the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. |
| 0:39.0 | But at that time, the U.S. population was about 103 million, less than a third of today's |
| 0:44.4 | 330 million. |
| 0:45.4 | Woo! |
| 0:46.4 | COVID! |
| 0:47.4 | Number one pandemic of all time! |
| 0:49.6 | We did it, baby! |
| 0:50.6 | We did it! |
| 0:51.6 | You know, I don't know what's worse. |
| 0:53.1 | That COVID has killed more Americans than any other pandemic, or that this won't change |
| 0:57.9 | anything. |
| 0:58.9 | Because let's be honest, the people who are scared of COVID will already scared back when |
| 1:02.8 | like 10 people died. |
| 1:04.7 | And everyone else is still going to be like, ah, I heard more people die from shark attacks. |
| 1:09.4 | Now, just to be clear, the Spanish flu killed a higher percentage of the population, right? |
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