Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Time from Illness Onset to Death, 1918 Influenza and Pneumococcal Pneumonia

Keith P. Klugman

, Christina Mills Astley, and Marc Lipsitch

Author affiliations: Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (K.P. Klugman); University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (K.P. Klugman); Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (C.M. Astley, M. Lipsitch); Children’s Hospital, Boston (C.M. Astley)

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Distribution of days of illness before death from influenza-related pneumonia, 1918, and from untreated pneumococcal pneumonia, 1920s and 1930s.

Figure. Distribution of days of illness before death from influenza-related pneumonia, 1918, and from untreated pneumococcal pneumonia, 1920s and 1930s.

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