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The surprising similarities between the Spanish flu and the coronavirus pandemic
- darkteflon 7y agoThis was a pretty weak-sauce, anecdote-fuelled “comparison” and in no way elucidates what’s happening at the moment. Pass.
- rurban 7y agoNot really comparable, even if we saw lately some cytokine storms in too healthy young people, where an overreaction of the immune system killed them. In three cases world wide so far. With the Spanish Flu it was 50% of all infected. It only killed the young and healthy. The current estimated Covid-19 mortality rate is under 1%. Not really comparable at all, sorry.