[1][2] Papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Restoration-era Spain (such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII).
[3] This created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit,[4] thereby giving rise to the pandemic's nickname, "Spanish flu".
[5] Listed alphabetically by surname Children of women who were pregnant during the pandemic ran the risk of lifelong effects.
One in three of the more than 25 million who contracted the flu in the United States was a woman of childbearing age.
[49] The study also found that persons born in states with more severe exposure to the pandemic experienced worse outcomes than persons born in states with less severe exposure.