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
TIL that the huge spike in deaths during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 has been attributed to Aspirin poisoning, in part because the Surgeon General at the time recommended an abnormally high dose to treat flu symptoms. User vexonator, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 09 Dec 2015
Study Finds Many Spanish Flu Deaths Actually Caused By Aspirin Overdoses: Salicylates [Aspirin] and Pandemic Influenza Mortality, 1918–1919 Pharmacology, Pathology, and Historic Evidence User omgcrackers, in the History subreddit, 30 Mar 2014
Study Finds Many Spanish Flu Deaths Actually Caused By Aspirin Overdoses: Salicylates [Aspirin] and Pandemic Influenza Mortality, 1918–1919 Pharmacology, Pathology, and Historic Evidence User accountt1234, in the Reddit Science subreddit, 26 Mar 2014
Study Finds Many Spanish Flu Deaths Actually Caused By Aspirin Overdoses: Salicylates [Aspirin] and Pandemic Influenza Mortality, 1918–1919 Pharmacology, Pathology, and Historic Evidence User omgcrackers, in the health subreddit, 26 Mar 2014
Aspirin and the high mortality rates during the 1918 pandemic flu outbreak: Aspirin contributed to the incidence and severity of viral pathology, bacterial infection, and death, because physicians were prescribing regimens now known to be potentially toxic. [auto-x-post - OP was axolotl_peyotl] User fringebot5001, in the Fringe Discussion subreddit, 26 Mar 2014
Salicylates and Pandemic Influenza Mortality, 1918–1919 Pharmacology, Pathology, and Historic Evidence - "aspirin contributed to the incidence and severity of viral pathology, bacterial infection, and death" User SovereignMan, in the The Real Skeptics subreddit, 25 Mar 2014
Aspirin and the high mortality rates during the 1918 pandemic flu outbreak: Aspirin contributed to the incidence and severity of viral pathology, bacterial infection, and death, because physicians were prescribing regimens now known to be potentially toxic. User axolotl_peyotl, in the conspiracy subreddit, 25 Mar 2014
Aspirin and the high mortality rates during the 1918 pandemic flu outbreak: Aspirin contributed to the incidence and severity of viral pathology, bacterial infection, and death, because physicians were prescribing regimens now known to be potentially toxic. User axolotl_peyotl, in the Reddit Science subreddit, 25 Mar 2014