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> We have much better medicine now, thankfully.

Do we? Against a deadly and virulent flu virus causing viral pneumonia? Not really without development of a highly effective vaccine.

You have better life support, but that's about it. Something like ECMO is extremely invasive and limited to maybe a few per ICU.

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"Something like ECMO is extremely invasive and limited to maybe a few per ICU."

Better supportive intensive care is exactly what lowers the case fatality rates for viral pneumonia. And this is very unlikely to become a hospital capacity problem.

We have anti-virals now, when back then we didn't.

Not sure if they'd actually work on these strains, but it's something.

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