anyone have a sense of what the fatality rate for covid19 would be *without* modern medical capabilities? the comparisons to spanish flu seem harder to make since that pre-dated ventilators and antibiotics (both dating to 1928) for eg
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there was basically no treatment or cure available for the spanish flu... they only tried to alleviate symptoms. aspirin for fever https://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2018/05/1918-flu/ …
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they did have oxygen and epinephrine though (how does that help pneumonia?)pic.twitter.com/JvstWsIlMN
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