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Volume 20, Number 11—November 2014
Research

Death Patterns during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Chile

Gerardo ChowellComments to Author , Lone Simonsen, Jose Flores, Mark A. Miller, and Cécile Viboud
Author affiliations: Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA (G. Chowell); National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (G. Chowell, M.A. Miller, C. Viboud); George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA (L. Simonsen); University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA (J. Flores); Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile (J. Flores)

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Figure 6

Age-stratified weekly respiratory mortality rates in Concepción, Chile, 1915–1920 (black lines). A) <20 years; B) 20–29 years; C) 30–50 years; D) >50 years. Shaded areas highlight 3 periods of excess deaths associated with 3 waves of the pandemic occurring in July–September 1918, November 1918–March 1919, and August 1919–March 1920. The Serfling seasonal regression model baseline (blue lines) and corresponding upper limit of the 95% confidence interval of the baseline (red lines) are also

Figure 6. Age-stratified weekly respiratory mortality rates in Concepción, Chile, 1915–1920 (black lines). A) <20 years; B) 20–29 years; C) 30–50 years; D) >50 years. Shaded areas highlight 3 periods of excess deaths associated with 3 waves of the pandemic occurring in July–September 1918, November 1918–March 1919, and August 1919–March 1920. The Serfling seasonal regression model baseline (blue lines) and corresponding upper limit of the 95% confidence interval of the baseline (red lines) are also shown. Excess deaths are estimated as the number of deaths occurring above the upper limit of the baseline mortality curve, which was calibrated by using number of deaths before the 1918 influenza pandemic.

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