Have any of the 20 cases in the U. S. been any worse than ‘mild’?
No? Then what’s the problem if it’s hitting healthy people 20 to 45 years old?
Now if somebody gets it and then dies, THAT changes the ballgame.
Yes it does change the ballgame.
This may turn out to be a mild outbreak (we can hope).
I guess a couple of things should be kept in mind however.
First, as I recall, the 1918 pandemic hit mostly young healthy adults, not infants or old people.
Second, as I recall, that pandemic actually hit in (at least) three waves. The first wave was mild enough that it took some retrospective analysis to see it. The second and third waves were the ones that caused most of the ~40 million deaths.
Let’s hope that history does not repeat itself.
(The close proximity of soldiers during WWI didn’t help either).
Here’s my concern. The CDC just stated that the median age of the flu victims in the US is 16.
Pandemics kill primarily those in the 25-45 age group. What happens when this spreads to the older population?
Swine Flu didn’t kill anyone in Mexico. It was their health care system.