“The mortality rate for 24-26 yr olds was 80 per 10,000, not the 1 per 100,000 in the table BobL found. I suspect that BobL was looking at a table for non-hybrid flu. “
Let’s be fair here. I also saw the 80 number, and it’s per 100,000, not 10,000 and that includes things like gun shots, suicide, drug ODs, Cancer, accidents, and everything else. As to “1” number, that said “Influenza”, so I don’t know what it includes. If 1 in 125 women (which is 80 per 10,000) in that age group were dropping dead every year, there would be more hype about it than there was even about AIDS.
But, as it is, there’s an article saying that it may have been a flu shot. It’s probably a good idea for well-known conservatives to start getting flu shots in other countries, or at least under different names if here.
Something’s not right here...
The 80 per 10,000 number is in the NIH paper. It's "influenza-attributable excess mortality in fall 1918" after adjusting for baseline mortality:
"Crude rates of mortality due to respiratory conditions displayed a “W” shape in fall 1918, peaking in infants, young adults, and seniors. We subtracted baseline mortality in prepandemic years to obtain influenza-attributable excess mortality in fall 1918. The highest rates of influenza-related excess mortality were found in infants < 1 year old. Three breakpoints were identified in the age-specific mortality curve: a minimum, at age 9.7 years (1908 birth cohort), with a rate of 15 deaths per 10 000; a maximum, at age 25.6 years (1892 birth cohort), with a rate of 80 deaths per 10 000;
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3563305/