It just had to do with luck': Inside Biden’s struggle to contain the H1N1 virus
It was April 2009 and the three-month-old Obama administration was desperately grappling with the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression when homeland security adviser John Brennan arrived at the Oval Office to warn the president and Vice President Joe Biden of a new crisis: H1N1, the “swine flu,” was showing signs of rapid spread in Mexico, while cases were popping up in California and Texas.
..................
“It is purely a fortuity that this isn’t one of the great mass casualty events in American history,” Ron Klain, who was Biden’s chief of staff at the time, said of H1N1 in 2019. “It had nothing to do with us doing anything right. It just had to do with luck. If anyone thinks that this can’t happen again, they don’t have to go back to 1918, they just have to go back to 2009, 2010 and imagine a virus with a different lethality and you can just do the math on that.”
The truth has a way of slipping out of the left's grasp.
CDC estimate of global H1N1 pandemic deaths: 284,000
59 million Americans contracted the H1N1 virus, 265,000 were hospitalized as a result, and 12,428 died
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elec...truggle-to-contain-the-h1n1-virus/ar-BB13z7bT
It was April 2009 and the three-month-old Obama administration was desperately grappling with the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression when homeland security adviser John Brennan arrived at the Oval Office to warn the president and Vice President Joe Biden of a new crisis: H1N1, the “swine flu,” was showing signs of rapid spread in Mexico, while cases were popping up in California and Texas.
..................
“It is purely a fortuity that this isn’t one of the great mass casualty events in American history,” Ron Klain, who was Biden’s chief of staff at the time, said of H1N1 in 2019. “It had nothing to do with us doing anything right. It just had to do with luck. If anyone thinks that this can’t happen again, they don’t have to go back to 1918, they just have to go back to 2009, 2010 and imagine a virus with a different lethality and you can just do the math on that.”
The truth has a way of slipping out of the left's grasp.
CDC estimate of global H1N1 pandemic deaths: 284,000
59 million Americans contracted the H1N1 virus, 265,000 were hospitalized as a result, and 12,428 died
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elec...truggle-to-contain-the-h1n1-virus/ar-BB13z7bT
