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by mrfusion 2209 days ago
It’s in the same family as cold viruses. There’s no reason a healthy person won’t recover. If you’re at risk and get in ICU there could be long term issues but that’s a small risk for healthy people.
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This is pretty reductionist and simplistic. H1N1 variants were in the same family as influenza D.

One killed 17-50 million people in two years, the other is not yet known to even infect animals.