history likes to rhyme. "The high case-fatality rate—especially among young adults—during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic is incompletely understood ...The hypothesis presented herein is that aspirin contributed to the incidence and severity of viral pathology, bacterial infection, and death..." User Salacious_silverback, in the Wall Street Silver subreddit, 26 Dec 2022
Was The Excessive Death Rate In The 1918 “Spanish” Flu driven by aspirin overdoses? User Stewpid, in the Science: Uncensored. Science with no political censorship by Mods subreddit, 27 Feb 2020
Does aspirin make COVID-19 worse? Salicylates and Pandemic Influenza Mortality, 1918–1919 Pharmacology, Pathology, and Historic Evidence | Clinical Infectious Diseases User brad2008, in the COVID-19 subreddit, 16 Feb 2020
TIL that the 1918 Spanish flu "death spike" may have mostly been from aspirin. Aspirin overdoses mimic the symptoms of a severe flu. User darkenedgy, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 20 May 2019