The higher mortality in younger people in 1918 may well be iatrogenic. Aspirin was just becoming widely used by my Army medical colleagues of the time but no-one knew what the therapeutic dose was. There is anecdotal evidence of Doctors giving out aspirin pills by the handful with light-headedness, fever, drowsiness, hyperactivity, confusion, seizures, destroyed muscle tissue (rhabdomyolysis), kidney failure, and difficulty breathing.
Oh very well plated! Fascinating and great graphs. One for my “good to have” archive indeed.
Thank you kindly!
I suppose it is once again a pull-foward effect in the elderly.
So many good bites in this post. I'll come back and add more, but...re: the graphs under BUT...
A comp, courtesy of the NYC DOH. https://substack.com/profile/32813354-jessica-hockett/note/c-97993950?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=jjay2
I know you'll appreciate the title of that graph...
That's my kind of title... and I love the gothic look.
This is riveting!
The higher mortality in younger people in 1918 may well be iatrogenic. Aspirin was just becoming widely used by my Army medical colleagues of the time but no-one knew what the therapeutic dose was. There is anecdotal evidence of Doctors giving out aspirin pills by the handful with light-headedness, fever, drowsiness, hyperactivity, confusion, seizures, destroyed muscle tissue (rhabdomyolysis), kidney failure, and difficulty breathing.
Crikey! Big thanks for putting flesh on the numerical bones, as it were.