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I've been posting about this for years: https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/cdcresponse.htm April 27, 2009 the swine flu is declared a pandemic.

October 2009 obama declares the swine flu a national emergency after 6 months and 1,000 Americans had already died.

with the swine flu and an estimated 12,469 died.

In late July, 2009 the CDC abruptly advised states to stop testing for H1N1 flu, and stopped counting individual cases.

The rationale given for the CDC guidance to forego testing and tracking individual cases was: why waste resources testing

for H1N1 flu when the government has already confirmed there's an epidemic?

Some public health officials privately disagreed with the decision to stop testing and counting, telling CBS News that

continued tracking of this new and possibly changing virus was important because H1N1 has a different epidemiology,

affects younger people more than seasonal flu and has been shown to have a higher case fatality rate than other flu virus

strains.

CBS News learned that the decision to stop counting H1N1 flu cases was made so hastily that states weren't given the

opportunity to provide input.

Ron Klain "I wasn't involved directly in the H1N1 response but I lived through it as a White House staffer and what I would say

about it is a bunch of really talented, really great people were working on it and we did every possible thing wrong.

Sixty million Americans got H1N1 during that period of time. It is purely a fortuity that this isn’t one of the great

mass casualty events in American history. It had nothing to do with us doing anything right. It was just luck.

And Again, in late July the cdc stopped keeping track of individual cases. We may never know the full effect of H1N1.

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