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Re:How to Respond to COVID-19 by askvictor on Saturday February 29, 2020 @04:32AM (#22449797)
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.
Re:How to Respond to COVID-19 by exdsq on Saturday February 29, 2020 @06:06AM (#22450047)
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.
Re:How to Respond to COVID-19 by E14n on Saturday February 29, 2020 @08:14AM (#22450367)
There are some graphs broken down by age for the Spanish flu https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/