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One thing we learned from the 1918 pandemic is to not to give 40 mg of aspirin to people. One of the major causes of death during that time was bleeding out int
by controversy 6y ago
One thing we learned from the 1918 pandemic is to not to give 40 mg of aspirin to people. One of the major causes of death during that time was bleeding out internally. We now know that 4mg is the max. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091002132346.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091002132346.h...
- CryptoPunk 6y agoWhat caused the 1918 pandemic to become significantly more deadly in its second wave was the war inadvertedly forcing healthy asymptomatic carriers to stay in place, instead of preferentially spread their strain of the virus, while sending symptomatic carriers of the virus to hospitals which acted as conduits for transmission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Transmission_and_mutation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Transmission_and_m...