TY - SER AU - Walmsley, Jan AU - Todd, Stuart AU - Bernal, Jane AU - O'Driscoll, David TI - When epidemics bring too many deaths T2 - Community Living PY - 2021/// KW - Leavesdean Hospital, UK KW - INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY KW - COVID-19 KW - INFLUENZA KW - HEALTH KW - INEQUALITY KW - MORTALITY RATE KW - COMPARATIVE STUDIES N2 - Draws parallels between the higher death rates amongst intellectual disability populations both during the Spanish flu epidemic and the current COVID-19 one. Looks at the reasons for this disparity and illustrates the 1918-1920 one with statistics from records of the Leavesden Hospital in Hertfordshire ER -