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Spanish/Covid Flu: Playbook or History Repeating Itself?
7. Most Afflicted Age RangeSept 2020Spanish Flu affected healthy young adults more than children, the elderly or those with weak immune systems.
Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill juvenile, elderly, or already weakened patients; in contrast the 1918 pandemic predominantly killed previously healthy young adults.
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May 2020It was the 20, 30, & 40-year-olds that were hardest hit.
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March 2020Japan displayed the same “W” shape of morbidity that appeared in the West (the flu killed the young, the old, and a
high percentage of young adults).
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Sept. 2019[UK] The first wave mainly claimed the very young, elderly and sick. In the second wave half of the deaths were people aged between 20-40 years old. It wasn’t unknown for healthy adults to die within a day of catching the virus. The third, in the late winter in early 1919, was also powerful and produced a high mortality rate.
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July 2019One very peculiar aspect of the whole thing was the fact that the Spanish flu mostly
affected healthy, young adults, It was one of the most perplexing parts of it all, as it flew against everything we thought we knew about flu outbreaks or disease in general. According to recent research, it has a perfectly plausible explanation. People born between 1880 and 1900—the most-affected demographic—never developed immunity toward the right type of flu viruses. The flu that was most prominent during their childhoods was distinctly different from the Spanish flu. Those born earlier in the 19th century had been exposed to flu viruses more like the Spanish flu and thus had better immunity. [
FN: Which they didn’t inherit from their parents?]
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2016The pandemic strain differed from seasonal epidemics in terms of its disproportionate burden among young people, particularly previously healthy individuals between 18 and 40 years of age. While the reasons for this are poorly understood, one possible explanation relates to the role of infection in turning the immune system against itself, triggering a dangerous and potentially deadly
cytokine storm. Consequently, those with the most robust immune systems may have been at greatest risk.
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Sept. 2011In 1920, a Ministry of Health report noted that unlike ordinary seasonal flu, which was worst in the elderly, weak and sick, the new illness disproportionately
struck those aged 20 to 30. Young adults with the strongest immune systems were, unexpectedly, the most vulnerable.
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Sept. 2008In Spain; mortality rates were higher among persons aged <1 year and among those aged 25–29 years.
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