For you Bed Wetters
Remember back in 2009 when we had the H1N1 flu pandemic, people were quarantined, businesses shut down and everyone wore masks? Yeah, me neither because it never happened. However take a look at these pandemic comparisons:
2020 COVID-19 in the United States: 2.6 million cases; 159,261 deaths
2009 H1N1 in the United States: 60.8 million cases; 12,469 deaths
According to the CDC, 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. This may explain the reason the death rate was significantly lower as it rarely impacted the elderly. Even though the H1N1 flu continued to infect people, the Obama administration told States to stop testing and collecting data since they already knew it had hit “pandemic” stage. Thus the statistics above are from April 2009-April 2010