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Re:Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic... by jacquesm on Sunday February 23, 2020 @12:30PM (#22398138)
Typically not. But that's not how this stuff works. It is bell curves all the way. So your old, very young and vulnerable people will make up the bulk of those that die but there will be plenty of regular people in the prime of their life that will die as well.
Re:Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic... by blub on Sunday February 23, 2020 @12:57PM (#22398326)
Any idea why the fatality < 9yo was zero? Surprisingly I haven't seen anyone concerned about kids, which is a tad unusual.
Re:Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic... by tomohawk on Sunday February 23, 2020 @01:34PM (#22398583)
The 1918 flu particularly affected 20-40 year old healthy people.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-did-1918-flu-kill...

Re:Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic... by jacquesm on Sunday February 23, 2020 @01:41PM (#22398636)
That was an anomaly in many other ways too. Keep in mind that a good chunk of the world was still recovering from WWI. Being exposed to some other disease earlier in life can give a similar effect to vaccination.

This is one of the reasons why HIV spread was not as bad as it could have been in Western Europe where exposure to a disease still gave some benefits many centuries later:

https://www.nature.com/news/2005/050307/full/news050307-15.h...