150,000 is a big number by anyone's standards, but for a small country like Haiti, it is unfathomable. This is what America would look like if we lost a proportionate number of our citizens to a natural disaster...
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Notes: Numbers of Haitians dead based on conservative estimate of 150,000. Americans killed in natural disasters gathered from a variety of sources but primarily the CDC and NOAA. American population determined by 2008 census. Swine flu deaths determined by WHO confirmed deaths.
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