It has already split into two variants.
What folks don’t realize about the 1918 Pandemic is that it went around the world at least three times.
Each time, it was worse than the first time. Coronaviruses do that—they are terrible to pin down for a vaccine.
The first time around it came for the old and infirm. The second time, in later 1918, it decimated the trenches in the war (it was a HUGE factor in the armistice—which is odd that it is often overlooked.) The third time it took all the other categories.
Yes. The second and third waves did the killing and it spared no age group.
The horrific scale of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic is hard to fathom. The virus infected 500 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims— that’s more than all of the soldiers and civilians killed during World War I combined.
www.history.com/.amp/news/spanish-flu-second-wave-resurgence
that is really interesting
and yes, I didnt know that.
I do remember an article posted here that said it originated in the US..dont remember city and state.
It had a high level of farm animals.
That’s heartening.
So we are talking a year then ?
I figure my grandfather got it on the third wave then. He was a young, healthy man with a wife and two daughters. My mother was one year old.
The 1918 virus always had a W curve. This virus does not.