Spanish flu

[AliBear90]

Has anybody else wondered if this is mutating the same way as Spanish flu? To attack healthy immune systems, rather than weakened ones. Which will kill the young and healthy more. Keep hearing about more and more young l, healthy people dying and being on ventilators. And more and more people who are elderly or with serious health conditions recovering quickly. Any thoughts on this?

No. I work in the NHS analytics and there's no evidence of this at all. Unfortunately globally there's been a lot of older people dying to the point this isn't newsworthy any more. However, young people dying is much rarer in general so is more newsworthy. You then see lots of anecdotes about young people dying which feeds this belief. However it is thankfully still incredibly rare.

@alliejay81 thank you 😊. Glad to hear it’s still a rarity.

It really is... I have an eleven year old and there's been a report of a twelve year old dying today. It's awful and it makes my heart jump, but we need to try and keep it in context at a population level.

Take care OP x (very unMumsnet, but I give no shits)

The Spanish flu went through a population that was suffering the physical effects of a war - so a lot of young people who got it were not in the best shape.

There is also a possibility that the younger ones who are passing away have got underlying health issues they were not known and only a post mortem would find.

It’s very sad though.