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Thanks for responding but even if that's true, that there were no excess deaths for 50+ year olds in 1918-1920, the reason for that could be that 50+ year olds had a good deal of natural immunity to the H1N1 virus from exposure, in a previous pandemic, to a virus with a somewhat similar structure - maybe two pandemics before, which older virus had been replaced by the virus causing next flu pandemic, which then became the seasonal flu so that people under 50 were never exposed to the virus two pandemics before. That seems like a plausible explanation to me, at least one that can't be ruled out just because people 50+ did not have excess deaths in 1918-20 if that's the case. No?

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