Who remembers the swine flu panic of 2009? Media scramble to rebut comparisons

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Who remembers the swine flu panic of 2009? Media scramble to rebut comparisons

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, March 15, 2020 Pro-Obama corporate media outlets took some time out of their effort to create panic over the coronavirus to attempt to explain why they didn’t try to create panic over the swine flu outbreak of 2009. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate, there were […]

6 months and 1,000 deaths later, Obama declared H1N1 a public health emergency

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6 months and 1,000 deaths later, Obama declared H1N1 a public health emergency

by WorldTribune Staff, March 2, 2020 The swine flu, or H1N1, was first reported to have been detected in the United States in April 2009. At the end of April 2009, President Barack Obama addressed Americans briefly, saying that U.S. health officials were monitoring the situation. Obama said he had requested $1.5 billion from Congress […]