Forgotten pandemic — 1957 Asian Flu (H2N2) killed 70-100K Americans, 2M worldwide (US pop was 172M)

GDP puked 14%, then shot up 10% by Q2 1958

Interesting part— FRED did not cite the flu as the main cause at that time

Worth reading up on

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