FACT CHECK: Trump's Accusations About The Obama Administration And Swine Flu

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Trump, widely criticized for his administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, tried to shift blame Friday to his predecessor's handling of a health crisis 11 years ago.

In a series of tweets, Trump accused former President Barack Obama of making unspecified changes that "complicated" the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention's testing system.

Trump falsely charged the Obama administration's response to the H1N1 swine flu outbreak as a "full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem, until now."

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According to a CDC estimate, there were more than 60 million swine flu cases reported in the U.S. between April 2009 — when the disease was first detected in California — and April 2010, with more than 12,000 people dying.

The agency said the first case was reported on April 15, 2009, and the government declared H1N1 a public health emergency on the April 26. The first test to detect the new virus was approved by the FDA two days later.

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https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815363362/fact-check-trumps-accusations-about-the-obama-administration-and-swine-flu?ft=nprml&f=1001

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1. His worshipers will believe whatever he says.

Even though he's a lying, cheating, thieving, incompetent moron.

And by the way, the fatality rate was a little above 2 tenths of one percent.

[Cha]

2. KR!

[Squinch]

3. But on another note entirely, wasn't H1N1 supposed to be an extremely virulent and

deadly flu? The CDC tells us that a regular flu kills 30,000 to 60,000 per year, yet H1N1 only killed 12,000.