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To be fair. Seasonal flu usually induces secondary sickness (bacterial pneumonia) that causes mortality in the elderly and very young population. Spanish flu w
by drewcon 7y ago
To be fair. Seasonal flu usually induces secondary sickness (bacterial pneumonia) that causes mortality in the elderly and very young population.
Spanish flu wiped out the young and elderly but also the middle aged directly with things like cytokine storms. Something we are not seeing with Covid 19.
- bcrosby95 7y agoCorrect. Note that there were multiple waves of the Spanish Flu. First wave was fairly mild and hit the young and elderly. Second wave hit the middle aged and wiped out a chunk of the population. The third wave was slightly worse than the first but much less deadly than the second - I couldn't find much detail about it when I last tried. Several theories on why it turned out this way, none of them relevant to the current situation though.