How long until you stop repeating that lie about Obama?
Obama acted before pandemic declared
Obama’s acting director of health and human services
declared H1N1 a public health emergency on April 26, 2009.
That was when only
20 cases of H1N1 — and no deaths — around the country had been confirmed.
Two days later, the administration made an initial funding
request for H1N1 to Congress. Eventually $7.65 billion was allocated for a vaccine and other measures.
H1N1 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on June 11, 2009.
In other words, the Obama administration’s public health emergency declaration came more than six weeks before the pandemic designation.
Now to Obama’s second action.
On Oct. 24, 2009, six months after his administration declared H1N1 a public health emergency, Obama declared it a national emergency.
At that point, H1N1 had claimed more than
1,000 American lives, according to the CDC.
https://www.politifact.com/factchec...ent-obama-declared-h1n1-public-health-emerge/