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Overcrowding and mortality during the influenza pandemic of 1918: Evidence from US Army Camp A. A. Humphreys, Virginia

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The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more than 50 million people. Why was 1918 such an outlier? I. W. Brewer, a US Army physician at Camp Humphreys, Virginia, during the First World War, investigated several factors suspected of increasing the risk of severe flu: length of service in the army, race, dirty dishes, flies, dust, crowding, and weather. Overcrowding stood out, increasing the risk of flu 10-fold and the risk of flu complicated with pneumonia fi ve-fold. Calculations made with Brewer's data show that the overall relationship between overcrowding and severe flu was highly significant (P

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  • Andrew Aligne, C., 2016. "Overcrowding and mortality during the influenza pandemic of 1918: Evidence from US Army Camp A. A. Humphreys, Virginia," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 106(4), pages 642-644.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2015.303018_7
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.303018
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    1. Corrado Magnani & Danila Azzolina & Elisa Gallo & Daniela Ferrante & Dario Gregori, 2020. "How Large Was the Mortality Increase Directly and Indirectly Caused by the COVID-19 Epidemic? An Analysis on All-Causes Mortality Data in Italy," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(10), pages 1-11, May.

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