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Do you have a source for that 8-22% of population died, which seems an extremely large, unrealistic number? E.g. https://www.quora.com/Which-country-was-most-a
by PeterisP 7y ago
Do you have a source for that 8-22% of population died, which seems an extremely large, unrealistic number?
E.g. https://www.quora.com/Which-country-was-most-affected-by-the-Spanish-Flu?share=1 https://www.quora.com/Which-country-was-most-affected-by-the... cites some resource which shows an estimate of 2.3 M people dead in Europe, and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634693/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634693/ shows an estimate of 2.6 M excess deaths in Europe i.e. 1.1% of population.
The vast majority of the worldwide deaths from Spanish flu were in Asia; the region with most deaths was India.
- nabla9 7y agoSorry. Copied wrong numbers. In europe 1.1%. >Whatever is taken as estimation of the American pandemic death burden, it is well below the European estimations we provide and others have provided. A possible explanation is that, at the end of WW1, Europe was characterised by massive civilian and army movements, a health care system put at its minimum and frail populations. This has very likely heavily impacted the European death toll. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634693/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634693/