Funny how none of you morons complained about Congress holding emergency hearings and investigating the response to the H1N1 virus...
Congressional lawmakers moved quickly Monday to investigate the spread of the deadly strain of swine flu in Mexico and the United States, calling for emergency hearings to review the federal government’s response.
thehill.com
And then conducted an investigation into the federal response of it after the outbreak was over....
By the way....when there was a swine flu outbreak in 1976 -- they held congressional hearings on that one too....they do this to find out how they can improve things for the next outbreak....
this isn't some attack agaisnt your ******* cult leader...calm your goofy ass down....
Oh, bull. That is exactly what it is. You know, I know and the rest of America knows it.
If your dumb ass thinks he did everything right -- why would a hearing about it trigger you so much??
Do you think Obama was ranting and raving about hearings being held in the aftermath of H1N1?
The more yall defend the ***** ass behavior of Trump -- the more you resemble being a ***** yourself...
If I was confident I did everything right and that I wasn't responsible for anything -- as your cult leader said -- I wouldn't be worried
Does your dumb ass think that Obama did everything right with the H1N1?
Despite calls from many US lawmakers for tightening controls over the Mexico-US border, administration officials ruled out that option.
"Closing our nation's borders is not merited here," said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano at a mid-afternoon briefing. She said closing borders or US ports would have enormous adverse economic consequences and would have "no impact or very little" to help stop the spread of the virus.
Medical experts have found that a series of rapid but conservative decisions by federal officials worked out better than many had dared hope.
www.nytimes.com
Officials in the United States conceded that some mistakes were made.
For example, they could have spotted the new virus earlier if there had been better cooperation with Mexico. In late April, the United States isolated it in samples from Texas and California just as Canadian officials were testing Mexican ones. The outbreak probably began in rural Mexico in January, but was spotted only when thousands fell ill in late March or early April in Mexico City.
The C.D.C. tests viruses in Southeast Asia, where new flus are usually born. “This time,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the C.D.C. director, “one happened to emerge in a place where we don’t have a surveillance system.”
Also, the government predicted in early summer that it would have 160 million vaccine doses by late October. It ended up with less than 30 million, leading to a public outcry and Congressional investigations.
Another controversial decision sending a few early vaccine doses to Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs and Citibank was more of a bad public relations move than a bad public health one, experts said. That choice was made by the New York City Health Department, “and we made the decision not to second-guess local health authorities,” Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of health and human services, said in an interview.
Ms. Sebelius has said she was relying on estimates from manufacturers, who reported in July that 120 million doses of vaccine would be available by the end of this month a figure that was later lowered to 40 million doses, and then lowered again. She said Wednesday that 23.2 million doses had become available, including 9 million in the last week alone.
Accepting the manufacturers’ assurances may have been “naïve on our part,” Ms. Sebelius said in an interview. But she said Mr. Obama recognized that the matter was beyond the government’s control. “If we could wave a magic wand or have the tools in our government shop to fix this,” she said, “I think there would be a different expectation.”
For a president whose aides regard him as the best communicator in the administration, Mr. Obama has been relatively low profile during the pandemic. When he declared a national emergency over the weekend, he used a written proclamation. His Rose Garden appearance lasted just five minutes. His last public reference to H1N1 came on Sept. 23 one line in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, in which he promised to contribute vaccine to the World Health Organization.
Distribution of the vaccine could have been focused more precisely, experts said, directing it to hospitals first, or to doctors treating children and pregnant women, or to cities with big outbreaks.
“I still think sending it out on a per capita basis was the fairest and most equitable way,” Ms. Sebelius said.
The early combination of fears about the vaccine and anger over shortages, said Dr. Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at Children Hospital of Philadelphia, reminded him of an old Borscht Belt joke: “The food at this resort is so terrible,” one patron complains. “Yes,” agrees her companion. “And such small portions!”
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Obama didn’t declare H1N1 a national emergency until four months after WHO declared it a pandemic. A thousand Americans had died by that point. But, according to the
New York Times, all was well because Obama could still play golf.....
A timeline of major events that took place during the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic.
www.cdc.gov
April 27
- WHO Director-General raised the level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 3 to phase 4, based on data showing person-to-person spread and the ability of the virus to cause community-level outbreaks.
July 22
Clinical trials testing the 2009 H1N1 flu vaccine began.
(4 months after first cases here)
(Trials already started for covid19 on vaccines here 2 months after first cases here)
The (H1N1)pdm09 virus was very different from H1N1 viruses that were circulating at the time of the pandemic. Few young people had any existing immunity (as detected by antibody response) to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus, but nearly one-third of people over 60 years old had antibodies against this virus, likely from exposure to an older H1N1 virus earlier in their lives. Since the (H1N1)pdm09 virus was very different from circulating H1N1 viruses, vaccination with seasonal flu vaccines offered little cross-protection against (H1N1)pdm09 virus infection. While a
monovalent (H1N1)pdm09 vaccine was produced, it was not available in large quantities until late November—after the peak of illness during the second wave had come and gone in the United States. From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.
A summary of key events of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and the CDC's response activities between April 2009 and April 2010.
www.cdc.gov
Inf
ection with this new influenza A virus (then referred to as ‘swine origin influenza A virus’) was first detected in a 10-year-old patient in California on April 15, 2009, who was tested for influenza as part of a clinical study. Laboratory testing at CDC confirmed that this virus was new to humans. Two days later, CDC laboratory testing confirmed a second infection with this virus in another patient, an 8-year-old living in California about 130 miles away from the first patient who was tested as part of an influenza surveillance project. There was no known connection between the two patients. Laboratory analysis at CDC determined that the viruses obtained from these two patients were very similar to each other, and different from any other influenza viruses previously seen either in humans or animals. Testing showed that these two viruses were resistant to the two antiviral drugs amantadine and rimantadine, but susceptible to the antiviral drugs oseltamivir and zanamivir. (Thank God for that) CDC began an immediate investigation into the situation in coordination with state and local animal and human health officials in California.
www.cdc.gov
In
March and early April 2009, Mexico experienced outbreaks of respiratory illness subsequently confirmed by CDC and Canada to be caused by the novel virus.
Yet Obama didn’t declare an emergency for months.
