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Fed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gains

The paper, published this month and authored by New York Fed economist Kristian Blickle, examined municipal spending levels and voter extremism in Germany from the time of the initial influenza outbreak until 1933, and shows that “areas which experienced a greater relative population decline” due to the pandemic spent “less, per capita, on their inhabitants in the following decade.”

Via this Twitter thread which has a lot more on the long-term impacts of the 1918 flu pandemic.