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Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy
Someone PM’d me bringing up the Spanish Flu in 1915 which killed hundreds of thousands. That was 1915, we have progressed a great deal in medicine in the last 100 years.
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You might want to ask the person who gave you this information the source of their facts.
The Spanish Flu was 1918.
The Spanish Flu did not kill a few hundreds of thousands. Estimates vary, but it appears to have killed between 20-50 million people.
The Spanish Flu infected about 28% of Americans, it had a mortality rate of about 2.5% or about 670,000 Americans
Yes, we have better medical care now. But on the other hand, there were not nearly that many people in the world then. And we were not as interconnected. I have no clue whether better medicine will prevail. I hope so. But I am very conerned.
Here is an article from Sanford U.
https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/