'We had no ICUs at that time. We had no antivirals, had no vaccines for flu. We had no idea that the flu was even a virus at that time,' one scholar said. But social distancing helped then too.
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During World War I in Europe, the flu struck troops and civilians in the spring of 1918 and it flared up later in the U.S. "The death rate in 1918 was very high ... somewhere between 2 and 2 and a half percent," Bristow told NPR.In the fall of that year a second wave of the virus engulfed the globe, Bristow said. The young and the old were hit hard, but middle-aged, otherwise healthy individuals also suffered; those aged 20-40 accounted for about half of the deaths in the pandemic.
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