Re:How to Respond to COVID-19
by askvictor on Saturday February 29, 2020 @04:32AM
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On numbers from 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.
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The 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.
There are some graphs broken down by age for the Spanish flu
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/