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jlh1182 29.10.20 - 10:41am
There's some information to consider when thinking about a pandemic, here's information about the 1918 influenza crisis, mainly the lessons learned after all the information collated and assessed.. * +

jlh1182 29.10.20 - 10:44am
Oct 2, 2008 (CIDRAP News) In the influenza pandemic of 1918, those who got sick in the first wave of illness were up to 94 less likely to fall ill when the second and much more severe wave struck, according to a new analysis of historical data. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2008/10/study-first-flu-wave-1918-was-vaccine-some * +

jlh1182 29.10.20 - 10:45am
The authors, led by historian John M. Barry, sifted data mostly from US Army camps, along with some from the British navy and British cities, to conclude that infection in the first wave acted like a vaccine, conferring immunity that protected people when the second wave arrived. Barry wrote the 2004 book The Great Influenza, a chronicle of the pandemic. * +

jlh1182 29.10.20 - 10:47am
Their analysis 'strongly points to cross-protection between outbreaks of respiratory illness during spring and early summer of 1918 and the influenza pandemic wave in the fall of 1918. The cross-protection effect was estimated to range from 35pc to 94pc for clinical illness and from 56pc to 89pc for mortality,' says the report, published online by the Journal of Infectious Diseases. * +

jlh1182 29.10.20 - 10:50am
Whether morbidity from the 1918/19 influenza pandemic discriminated by socioeconomic status has remained a subject of debate for 100 years. In lack of data to study this issue, the recent literature has hypothesized that morbidity was socially neutral. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5907814/ * +

jlh1182 29.10.20 - 10:52am
Conclusions
For the first time, it is documented a crossover in the role of socioeconomic status in 1918 pandemic morbidity. The poor came down with influenza first, while the rich with less exposure in the first wave had the highest morbidity in the second wave. The study suggests that the socioeconomically disadvantaged should be prioritized if vaccines are of limited availability in a future pandemic. * +

shadow27 29.10.20 - 10:53am
I read the book about the ''Great Influenza'' by John M Barry about a year before this all started, incredibly informative book. * +

shadow27 29.10.20 - 10:56am
The difference being that the Spanish Flu was MUCH more deadly than this covid thing. People were literally dropping dead in the street. A dude in South Africa got on a tram to go home.. by the time he stepped off everyone else on it had died. * +

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