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> How did so many elderly get infected? Did the disease simply spread in close quarters where many elderly live? Elderly folks aren’t necessarily out and about drinking espresso and touching surfaces yet alone having younger asymptomatic carriers cough on them.

Ha. Italians in N. Italy often living multigeneration in close quarters. Spanish and italians, men and women, ritually kiss on the cheeks as a greeting. Brits and Germans don't so much.

Italians are very social to an old age and live longer than many nations.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...

> We estimated excess deaths of 7,027, 20,259, 15,801 and 24,981 attributable to influenza epidemics in the 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17

Italy always has this problem