You’re wrong by omission and very obviously get your information from Lou Dobbs. Don’t ask me to counter your political attacks if you won’t read: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-h1n1...emic-spin/
You’ve repeatedly demonstrated that YOUR politics clouds your absorption of facts. You’ve conveyed in PMs how much disdain you have for liberals, whom you label socialists. But all this revisionist history about H1N1 doesn’t eclipse the fact that the vast majority of experts in this country are describing Trump’s handling of CV as shamefully incompetent. Are you gonna start calling it the “China Flu” too?
(Mods, feel free to move this to the politics board but it’s a reply to Misui’s BS so I posted it here first)
Quote:On April 15, 2009, the first infection was identified in California, according to the CDC, and less than two weeks later, on April 26, 2009, the Obama administration declared a public health emergency. The day before, on April 25, the World Health Organization had declared a public health emergency.
Dr. Richard Besser, then-acting director of the CDC, confirmed to the press on the day of the U.S. declaration that there were 20 cases of H1N1 in the U.S., and that “all of the individuals in this country who have been identified as cases have recovered.”
The same day — April 26 — the CDC began releasing antiviral drugs to treat the H1N1 flu, and two days later, the FDA approved a new CDC test for the disease, according to a CDC timeline on the pandemic.
On April 30, 2009, two days after the public health emergency declaration, Obama formally asked Congress for $1.5 billion to fight the outbreak, and later asked for nearly $9 billion, according a September 2009 Congressional Research Service report. On June 26, 2009, Obama signed Congress’ supplemental appropriation bill that included $7.7 billion for the outbreak.
The U.S. public health emergency was renewed twice — on July 24, 2009, and Oct. 1, 2009.
The WHO declared H1N1 a pandemic on June 11, 2009. Obama declared a national emergency related to the pandemic on Oct. 24, 2009. At the time, the CDC director, Dr. Thomas Frieden, had said millions of people had been infected in the U.S. and more than 1,000 had died. Also about 11.3 million doses of H1N1 vaccine had been distributed, he said.
Quote:Trump said in a tweet that the Obama administration’s response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic “was a full scale disaster.” While he can have that opinion, there is little to support such a negative view.
A New York Times article from January 2010 said that while some mistakes were made, a variety of experts thought the administration had generally handled things well.
William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine told the Times that officials deserved “at least a B-plus,” while Mount Sinai virologist Peter Palese called the overall response “excellent.”
You’ve repeatedly demonstrated that YOUR politics clouds your absorption of facts. You’ve conveyed in PMs how much disdain you have for liberals, whom you label socialists. But all this revisionist history about H1N1 doesn’t eclipse the fact that the vast majority of experts in this country are describing Trump’s handling of CV as shamefully incompetent. Are you gonna start calling it the “China Flu” too?
(Mods, feel free to move this to the politics board but it’s a reply to Misui’s BS so I posted it here first)
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