[Grampa Dave]

Yet Apirin abuse may have killed people with the Spanish 1918 flu:

Aspirin Misuse May Have Made 1918 Flu Pandemic Worse ...www.sciencedaily.com › releases › 2009/10
Oct 3, 2009 — The devastation of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic is well known, but a new article suggests a surprising factor in the high death toll: the misuse of aspirin. ... High aspirin dosing levels used to treat patients during the 1918-1919 ... Spanish flu · Influenza pandemic · Flu vaccine · H5N1 · Pandemic · Avian ...

Aspirin misuse may have made 1918 flu pandemic worsemedicalxpress.com › news › 2009-10-aspirin-misuse-fl...
Oct 2, 2009 — The devastation of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic is well known, but a new ... a surprising factor in the high death toll: the misuse of aspirin. ... to treat patients during the 1918-1919 pandemic are now known to cause, ...

[BobL]

The difference, probably, was that they were trying to use aspirin to treat the symptoms of the Spanish Flu, as they had nearly as few options back then as we have now for Coronavirus.

[Bulwyf]

What made the Spanish flu worse was all the mask usage causing bacterial pneumonia. That was the cause of death of over half of the casualties.

[zek157]

1918 flu caused people to bleed out. Aspirin wouldn’t have nonevent good for that. Covid causes some people’s blood to coagulate, which aspirin would thin out.

I took aspirin when I had covid a few months back because I had read about the coagulation issue.

[Steve Van Doorn]

During the Spanish flu they used between 8 to 31.2 g aspirin per day. 9 g per day is toxic which makes you hyperventilate. They over medicated. Aspirin first produced in tablets a short time before this. They didn't know the proper dosage. What is interesting about this how one doctor influences many doctors when none of them knew what was to much.

http://whale.to/a/salicylates_and_pandemic.html

[Freedom56v2]

Killed my buzz.

Just kidding, good to know.

Eh maybe too much of a good thing (aspirin)?