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Originally Posted by KCrockaholic
Good post  But one difference we've seen is the types of people that are being effected by this virus compared to the the spanish flu. The median age of the spanish flu deaths was 28 years old. Now that's super interesting to me. And I'm not trying to be disingenuous towards the older crowd, but that thing was taking down fully healthy bodies which is super crazy. This is almost the reverse spanish flu. |
Oh yeah, we got lucky on that this time around. The first time through, in 1918, there was a very obvious "W" in the age groups (x-axis) to deaths (y-axis) graph. The median life expectancy dropped by 15 years in 1918. Part of it may be that we were still mobilized for war and it really got into the military ranks. First reported cases were just outside Leavenworth.
By 1919, that "W" was gone (T cells) and what remained was a older-age skewed "U" shape (but still hit the very young too). Fatal Covid-19 outcomes at least seem to be sparing that very young group.