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Re:San Francisco emerged from a lockdown too soon during the... by tonyedgecombe on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:11AM (#22978203)
The Spanish flu killed working age people.

When it returned the following year. It mutated to become much more dangerous to younger people.

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Re:San Francisco emerged from a lockdown too soon during the... by ranDOMscripts on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:32AM (#22978375)
The same year. What started as a bad flu in Kansas in the Spring of 1918 morphed into a super-killer by the Fall of the same year.[0]

[0]https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-second-wave-resurge...

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Re:San Francisco emerged from a lockdown too soon during the... by nogabebop23 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:48AM (#22978497)
yes - the first wave appeared to use young people as a transmission vector but didn't harm them compared to the second and third waves where they were hammered as hard as the young and old.
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