Comparing COVID-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is like Comparing Apples to Oranges: Scientific American

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6. US has 29% of global the deaths, for H1N1 we had 4%

Hey, remember H1N1, Obama's early presidency's pandemic? Trump couldn't shut up about the 12,000 US deaths from it for weeks. Well, those 12,000 US deaths represented 4% of the globes total deaths from H1N1. Right now, Trump's 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 represents 29% of the world's total deaths.

Different bugs with different fatality rates, but compared to the rest of the world, we did way way better in 2009. Why? Why didn't the US under Obama account for 29% of the global deaths from H1N1?

Might not even be a valid comparison, but it didn't stop them from bringing up the Swine Flu all of February to try to make Obama's response to it look bad compared to Covid-19. but the fact is that we performed way better in 2009 than in 2020 compared to the rest of the world.