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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
I suffered from that flu in ‘57 as a freshman in college. About half my fraternity house spent almost two weeks in bed. I’ve never been sicker in my life, absolutely an illness I wouldn’t want to repeat. I don’t recall that the pandemic back then lasted as long as this. Should we all feel better that the mortality rate of the 1957 flu was about the same as COVID-19? I doubt that my wife and I could survive being that sick again at our age now.
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1957 flu was a double peak pandemic that lasted about 8 months
The 57 flu killed a lot more young people than covid, which kills mainly the old