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mmastrac on April 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC reside...

Hard to compare directly against the Spanish Flu as medicine has had 100 years of progress, but assuming you are talking about overall impact, agreed.

glofish on April 23, 2020 | [–]

not to mention the Spanish Flu hit children just as hard as the old.

cozzyd on April 23, 2020 | [–]

The age distribution was also significantly different then.

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