Please check my H1N1 vs COVID-19 writeup
I was going to turn this into a thread on Twitter, but wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything or wrong. Thank you.
Some facts for the MAGA crowd comparing H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 2009 to COVID-19
The CDC estimates the flu kills 12,000 to 61,000 Americans per year.
Here is a timeline of what happened under Obama:
First case appears in the US in late March of 2009
HHS declares a Public Health Emergency on April 26, 2009 with only a handful of cases in the country.
Within 30 days, over 1 million Americans had been tested for H1N1 (per Ron Klain, former Ebola czar)
Obama declares H1N1 a national emergency in October of 2009.
By the time H1N1 ran its course, over 12,000 Americans had died. The fact that Obama took early and decisive action kept H1N1 deaths at the very low end of the flu scale.
The day before HHS declared the public health emergency, the Dow closed at 7749.81. A year later, in April of 2010 when H1N1 had run its course, the Dow closed at 11005.97, a gain of 42% in 13 months. So, handling H1N1 properly by being prepared did not tank the economy.
Meanwhile, in Coronavirus world, Trump was warned in December of 2019 about COVID-19 and did nothing and actively suppressed attempts to prepare for the virus. The economy is tanking, the market is in the toilet, people are quarantined in their homes and who knows how many hundreds of thousands will lose jobs this month and next?
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Don't allow this information to give them ideas about directly comparing H1N1 to this virus regarding nature contagion and risks.
Explain that they are two unique diseases and you're simply trying to point out the results of prompt, very PRESIDENTIAL leadership and action.
Great job, NewJeffCT!............
Snipped from an earlier post:
* WHO and the CDC has made it very clear that people harboring the coronavirus are most contagious before they show any symptoms of being sick. The temperature checks are rife with inaccuracies and of little value other than to cull out those who may need to be immediately quarantined.
Now, I'm reading that people who were infected but have "recovered" can still be contagious for several days after release from treatment.
Could be wrong but I don't think those characteristics apply to H1N1........
