NYT Daily ep on the coronavirus is *fascinating* — just a nonchalant convo about how this looks like another 1918 flu. For a lot of listeners, I'd guess this was the moment they realized that the tone of media elites would be roughly the same with or without mass graves looming
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Replying to @webdevMason
"just another spanish flu" is quite a statement Didn't it kill about 1-2% of the worlds population.
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Replying to @andreasklinger @webdevMason
Spanish flu happened 10 yrs before penicillin, and the main treatment was tons of aspirin (some deaths were actually aspirin overdose). Public sanitation was also far worse, leading to greater spread. It's profoundly incompetent of them to say this will be at all similar.
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Replying to @provisionalidea @andreasklinger
Antibiotics would have helped with secondary bacterial infections, but viral illness remains a significant weakness in modern medical care. "Clearly we can treat and contain this now" is a blind take.
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Secondary bacterial infections caused the vast majority of deaths from Spanish Flu (https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/bacterial-pneumonia-caused-most-deaths-1918-influenza-pandemic …). We've had over a *century* of health research since, including novel antivirals (like Gilead's remdesivir) that are promising enough to see use in this outbreak.
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Secondary bacterial infections are not causing the deaths that are occuring with the illness in front of us *now.* Clearly the situation would be much, much worse if we didn't have antibiotics or antivirals. It'll be very bad if we see shortages.
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