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To: daniel1212

Let your lazy fingers do the walking.https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/15/us/philadelphia-1918-spanish-flu-trnd/index.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark


11 posted on 03/15/2020 6:11:49 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer

That article provides little of the data the other poster was seeking.


13 posted on 03/15/2020 6:16:13 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SkyDancer; SoCal Pubbie
Let your lazy fingers do the walking.https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/15/us/philadelphia-1918-spanish-flu-trnd/index.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

It is the job to the one making the assertion to substantiate it (and as you could tell from my many postings, i provide much of that), and while you now have a source for the report, yet it does not provide much re. the factors needed to support your premise.

Except it somewhat does as regards population make up, as it reports,

The virus spread to Philadelphia on September 19, 1918, through the Philadelphia Navy Yard, In a matter of days, 600 sailors had the virus....the parade went on as scheduled on September 28, bringing 200,000 Philadelphians together.

Other factors contributed to the flu's spread, including high population and poor working and living conditions.

St. Louis, for example, canceled its parade while Philadelphia did not. In the end, the death toll in St. Louis did not rise above 700, according to the CDC - https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/15/us/philadelphia-1918-spanish-flu-trnd/index.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

And as for pop. size, in 1920: Philadelphia 1,823,779 vs. 687,000 for city of St. Louis, Missouri in 66 sq mi .

And there is more to be considered in this dissimilar comparison.

18 posted on 03/15/2020 6:53:37 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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