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Re:Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly by DSingularity on Friday March 13, 2020 @06:11AM (#22566068)
As the article notes, most the deaths of the Spanish flu were due to the bacterial infections which subsequently emerged in the patients. These would be prevented by modern antibiotics.
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Re:Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly by jeltz on Friday March 13, 2020 @06:15AM (#22566092)
Not all of them. People die in the west even today from bacterial pneumonia caused by the flu.
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Re:Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly by ethbro on Friday March 13, 2020 @06:57AM (#22566286)
"Not all of them" is a pretty odd spin on the difference of discovering Penicillin.

The antibacterial drugs we have nowadays are fundamentally different than the whole lack thereof in 1918.

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Re:Why the second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was so deadly by blaser-waffle on Friday March 13, 2020 @09:16AM (#22566996)
They sure do, but in small numbers. Mostly the old or infirm. A nasty flu virus like COVID will push those numbers but they're still outliers, doubly so with modern medicine.
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