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To: alanrs who wrote (777652)2/11/2023 8:34:36 PM
From: skinowski  Read Replies (2) of 793970
 
The pandemic mostly killed young adults. In 1918–1919, 99% of pandemic influenza deaths in the U.S. occurred in people under 65, and nearly half of deaths were in young adults 20 to 40 years old. In 1920, the mortality rate among people under 65 had decreased sixfold to half the mortality rate of people over 65, but 92% of deaths still occurred in people under 65.
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1918 was a disaster. The pandemic lasted for a few years, until 1920, came in 4 big waves - and it was a killer - notably, of young people. For that reason alone, it was far worse than CoViD.

But, I don’t believe they had a vaccine against it. The thinking was that it was caused by a bacterium. Read that some docs tried to create a vaccine from taking smears from their patient’s nasopharynx - but it didn’t work, and was abandoned.

Here, the “first” influenza vaccine is listed in 1937.
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