Spanish Flu (1 févr. 1918 – 1 avr. 1920)

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During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, it is known that Tove's mother, father, and younger sister contracted the Spanish flu.

~Overall, more than 900,000 (28% of the population) persons contracted flu during the y 1918-1920, and 1 out of 50 patients died from the disease. ~

The 1918-1920 Spanish influenza pandemic is iconic, leading in multiple waves to millions of deaths of mostly otherwise healthy young adults. Among the Nordic countries, Denmark experienced the lowest overall low mortality, however, there was considerable variation between regions within Denmark. Some towns experienced unexplained higher mortality than others, and mortality rates were generally higher in rural than in urban communities.

We find that 0,3% of Denmark’s population died during the four waves of the pandemic.

There were substantial regional differences with eastern Zealand being hit much harder than northern Jutland.

Urbanization appears to have been an important discriminating factor behind influenza mortality, and the Spanish flu can be seen as an urban disease.

On a regional scale, factors such as population density and access to medical care were not associated with increased influenza mortality while influenza incidence and socioeconomic conditions were: influenza-like incidence accounted for 48% of the explained variance while income explained 5%.

The observed differences in urbanization can mainly be explained by differences in incidence. While this study could not further explain the cause of these differences on the regional scale, diverging patterns between urban and rural regions could be due to local demographic and socioeconomic variations, which lead to more exposure to the pandemic virus.

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