[Pelham]

“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.

[Yaelle]

The vaccine for the 2018 season includes H1N1, H3N2, and two other strains.

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You just answered my next question. (Whether H1N1 was predicted)

Wonder if Bre had a flu shot.

[BobL]

I’m also told that a certain conservative committed suicide by shooting themselves twice in the head (can’t remember the name), along with many other interesting demises.