Doesn’t most disease/illness impact the elderly most, usually?
“Doesn’t most disease/illness impact the elderly most, usually?”
No. Not viral infections to the degree seen with the Wuhan virus.
Smallpox, polio affected and killed all ages about the same.
No the Spanish Flu (you know, the one named after it's country of origin, Spain) in the last pandemic in 1917 killed mostly young people. It badly hit soldiers in WWI. This China Virus, (You know, the one named after it's country of origin, China....Oh wait!) Is quite different.
The 1918 Spanish Flu was unusual in that it took many kids, teens, early adults and early middle age people. The ages hardest hit were skewed toward the young side with that disease.