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by mikem170 2016 days ago
So are you saying the 1968 flu was worse, because per capita across the world it killed as many, or up to three times as many, people in a younger world? (so far, covid19 is not gone yet)

It was pretty bad. The flu has all the long term complications for some people that covid does - the lung problems, heart swelling, brain problems, etc.

I talk to people who were alive in 1968. It just wasn't really on anyone's radar. Rarely made headlines in the U.S.