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To: Thehammer who wrote (701998)1/26/2020 1:00:48 PM
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True, usually such diseases are more dangerous to older people, and to those with a weakened immune system. But - not always. The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 hit mostly young, healthy people - and particularly, pregnant women. The likely explanation is that it happened because of the consequences of a powerful immune response in those people. It was an absolutely horrible illness... there are always worries that something like this may happen again.

Here is a very decent and (even) well written Wiki article about this. If not the whole thing, it makes sense to look through the introduction and the “patterns of mortality” sections. en.m.wikipedia.org

Coronavirus - caused illnesses are, actually, very common... they’re one of the frequent causes of common colds. Usually they are mild. This one seems to be some unusually bad strain... maybe an animal virus that “learned” to infect humans.
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