Sunday, July 12, 2020

If We're Losing The War on COVID-19, We Lost H1N1

According to the CDC, nearly 61 million Americans were infected during the H1N1 pandemic.

Currently, COVID-19 patients may amount to the third-largest city in the United States, but H1N1 patients amount to the largest city in the world more than twice over.

Ron Klain, who was Biden's chief of staff at the time of the H1N1 pandemic and is currently advising his campaign, says it was mere luck that H1N1 wasn't more deadly.

Does Axios consider the United States to have lost the war on H1N1? I'm asking for a friend.

The war on H1N1 suffered significant setbacks because of the Obama-Biden administration's failures, particularly when it came to vaccine shortages.

According to a study by Purdue University scholars, this failure cost lives because the H1N1 vaccine would arrive "Too late to help most Americans who will be infected during this flu season." The study determined that the CDC's planned vaccination campaign would "Likely not have a large effect on the total number of people ultimately infected by the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus."

Axios may not have existed during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, but considering the media never held Obama accountable for botching the response to that pandemic, I think we can safely say that such a sentiment, that we were losing the war on the H1N1 pandemic, would have never been a narrative pursued by the media.

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