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On numbers from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22432358 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22432358 (and those numbers are not necessarily accurate for
by askvictor 7y ago
On numbers from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22432358 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22432358 (and those numbers are not necessarily accurate for lots of reasons) the death rate is below 0.4% for all age groups below 49. Then it increases exponentially. I'm curious what the comparative age breakdown of the 1918 flu was, particularly given that a lot of people would have been malnourished due to the war, and health care was not as advanced as now.
- exdsq 7y agoThe Spanish influenza affected young adults more than the elderly/weak because it caused the immune system to attack the body. The stronger the immune system, the more damaging the individuals illness.
- E14n 7y agoThere are some graphs broken down by age for the Spanish flu https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/