While there is no doubt that 2020 will go down in history as one of the most stressful years in recent times, with the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the nation and killing more than 340,000 Americans before the year is out, historians believe it could be - and has been - far worse.
Ivy League and Oxbridge university professors have said 2020 ranks only the eighth worst year in US history, behind the peak of the American Civil War in 1862, the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and the Spanish flu pandemic in 1919.
A panel of 28 top historians and historical authors took part in a survey by CBT therapy and self-care app Bloom ranking what they believe were the most stressful years in American history.
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