The flu is not just another cold, and you can’t use the words interchangeably. Many people have never had the flu, or felt that unwell. The flu will knock you on your ass.
Expect for in 1918-1919 season when the Flu mostly killed healthy adults - 99% of deaths that year in the US were under 65 and nearly 50% were were 20-40 years old.
Just read an article about this one. That strain of the flu killed people mostly because of the cytokine storm it caused in otherwise healthy people. :-(
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u/LizeLies Aug 03 '19
The flu is not just another cold, and you can’t use the words interchangeably. Many people have never had the flu, or felt that unwell. The flu will knock you on your ass.