[CharlesWayneCT]

If it just kills old people and the infirmed, Obama will take credit for it as part of his cost-saving health care plan.

[silverleaf]

Actually, it is a type of flu that causes a “cytokine storm” so that those with the strongest immune systems die the fastest- in 1918, the young and healthy got sick and died in a day. Not that those with compromised immune systems fare much better. But I read one study that anti-arthritis drugs (which suppress the immune system) showed some good effect

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http://www.riskinstitute.org/peri/images/file/Lessons_from_1918_PartI.pdf