Pfizer vaccine..90 percent

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(11-12-2020, 11:15 AM)hollodero Wrote: I'm not that versed on this topic, could you provide me with some examples of things the Obama admin did disastrously wrong back then? For I can't quite see it. As far as I can tell, there were tests within a few days and a vaccine within the year. The public was briefed minaciously. The swine flu ended up killing around 12.500 people total, and not to appear heartless, this is more within the realms of a normal flu. They did not use masks and distancing and lockdowns in their response, and nobody would have accepted such measures. So yeah, I don't know, what went so horribly wrong?

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/04/joe-biden-contain-h1n1-virus-232992

Quote:“I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places right now," Biden said. "It’s not that it’s going to Mexico, it’s that you are in a confined aircraft. When one person sneezes, it goes everywhere through the aircraft.”

Airlines angrily accused Biden of fearmongering. Media reports noted that Biden’s pessimism contrasted sharply with the reassurances President Barack Obama had given a day earlier, when he said there was no need to panic even as he declared a national health emergency. In a matter of hours, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Deputy Secretary of State Jack Lew were summoned to the White House and assigned to clean up the mess Biden made: “Nip it in the bud,” LaHood said, recalling their instructions.
By 4 p.m., the three officials were hosting a news conference and backing away from the vice president’s words.

The snafu was the first of many scrambles and setbacks by the Obama administration in its initial response to the swine flu. POLITICO interviewed almost two dozen people, including administration officials, members of Congress and outsiders who contended with the administration’s response, and they described a litany of sadly familiar obstacles: vaccine shortfalls, fights over funding and sometimes contradictory messaging.

“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.”

Over the course of a year, the H1N1 flu infected 60 million Americans, but claimed only 12,469 lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The only thing they did right was be around a crisis that wasn't as deadly.