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To: DMaA who wrote (211900)	6/25/2020 7:57:07 PM
From: Honey_Bee	Respond to of 457701

The Obama-Biden Media Bolsheviks totally ignore the pandemic that they were in charge of controlling that cost millions of lives and IS STILL WITH US with NO vaccine! How Did President Obama Handle The H1N1 Outbreak? With the coronavirus pandemic in full swing, many are looking to the past to see how former President Barack Obama handled the H1N1 influenza virus (swine flu) pandemic during his administration a decade ago. H1N1 was first detected in April of 2009, infected 60.8 million people, and caused 12,469 deaths in America. Some believe that the Obama administration could have done a better job, but some believe otherwise. Swine Flu was first discovered in a ten-year-old California girl. The U.S. launched a multi-faceted, long-term approach, and on August 10, 2010, the World Health Organization declared that the pandemic was over. H1N1 still circulates and is a seasonal virus that can lead to hospitalization and death. Obama has been criticized for waiting until millions of people had been infected before informing the public about H1N1. However, a headline from the New York Times on April 26, 2009, reads: “U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu.” At the time, Obama told the National Academy of Sciences that it was “not a cause for alarm.” This was before this flu had turned into a pandemic; on April 26, there were twenty confirmed cases of this flu. After this announcement, the government was working with researchers to help develop a vaccine, with hopes of launching it the following fall. Then in October of 2009, the Obama administration declared H1N1 a national emergency. By then, 1,000 Americans had lost their lives. That national emergency status allowed the country to initiate operational protocols, like relocating emergency rooms to offsite locations to separate infected patients from other one. An October 2009 Cardiology Today article reported that Obama advocated for a “common sense” approach to fighting the pandemic when he spoke at a White House press conference. He told people to wash their hands often, cover sneezes with sleeves, and to stay home if they were ill. Obama added that the federal government would be stepping up its H1N1 response, with a strategy focusing on the four pillars of public health: surveillance, mitigation, vaccination, and communications. He also spoke about vaccine development.