Reply to Shanks and Brundage: Many plausible mechanisms of pandemic mortality disparities

摘要: In our recently published paper (1), we find evidence that several metrics of socioeconomic status were associated with influenza and pneumonia mortality during the 1918 pandemic. We agree Shanks Brundage (2) there are many possible causal mechanisms behind this association appreciate hypotheses they add to discussed. Secondary bacterial infections, particularly those secondary infections resulting in pneumonia, have been implicated a number deaths pandemic period (3⇓–5). Our dataset includes attributed both … [↵][1]1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: datc{at}ufl.edu. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1