Sorry, but it’s not 1918, and if this is the start of another pandemic, I’ll apologize.
But if it’s not, I would like to know what the REAL cause of death is for her, as I very much doubt that she just happened to be the one in 100,000 picked to die from it.
“Sorry, but it’s not 1918, and if this is the start of another pandemic, I’ll apologize.”
The 1918 flu was the H1N1 strain. It’s a swine flu variant that is particularly dangerous to 26 yr old adults because of their strong immune response.
H1N1 is the flu strain that Bre Payton was diagnosed with.
And at 26 she was in the most at risk age cohort for H1N1 mortality.
That doesn’t mean that there will be a pandemic. There was no vaccine in 1918 to break the chain of transmission. There is now. The vaccine for the 2018 season includes H1N1, H3N2, and two other strains.