1918 is not 2005....at least in the US.
Good point. Medical care has advanced a lot. I wonder how many cases went into bacterial infections? There are complications of illnesses that can be dealt with now. That would help.
"Good point. Medical care has advanced a lot. I wonder how many cases went into bacterial infections? There are complications of illnesses that can be dealt with now. That would help."
I'm not sure what to make of this. This kind of fear makes people lose it, even here on FR.
There was a thread on FR from about a year ago, when the CDC was predicting a really bad year for the latest flu virus, with lots of people dying. Some people on FR were saying that anyone who wasn't willing to get a flu vaccination should be put in an interment camp -- even though the flu shot they were offering was from the previous year, it wasn't even for the nasty flu strain they were expecting.
Of course last year's flu wasn't a big problem, so the CDC projections were wrong. They were also wrong about how big a deal SARS would be in the US.
Not sure what to think about them; they seem like they have cried wolf alot over stuff. Maybe they are right this time, who knows.