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Is this covid-19 epidemic going to be as bad as the 1918 spanish flu pandemic?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Hopefully not: During the time of the Spanish Flu pandemic many people in cities lived very close together in over-crowded conditions. There were not excellent antibiotics available to treat secondary bacterial pneumonia. The death rate from Spanish FLU was believed to be around 2%. Calculations of death rates for COVID 19 vary but recently it was estimated to be between 3 to 4%. Science has come a long way si

Answered 5/3/2020

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