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> Iran has reported a death rate of up to 17%. Apparently Iran also had a high death rate for spanish flu. From wikipedia: > In Iran, the mortality was very
by stock_toaster 7y ago
> Iran has reported a death rate of up to 17%.
Apparently Iran also had a high death rate for spanish flu.
From wikipedia:
> In Iran, the mortality was very high: according to an estimate, between 902,400 and 2,431,000, or 8% to 22% of the total population died.[67]
> -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoIran was also at the tail end of 4-year, 3-sided war that killed around 2M people. The very fact that there's 1.5M people (!) leeway in the numbers tells you something about the state the country was in, and how difficult it is to attribute those deaths specifically to one thing like the flu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Campaign