October 24, 2009 - Obama Declares National Emergency for H1N1

CBS ^ | October 24, 2009 | Staff

[yoe]

[snip] Health authorities say more than 1,000 people in the United States, including almost 100 children, have died from the flu, known as H1N1, and 46 states have widespread flu activity. So far only 11 million vaccine doses have gone out to health departments, doctor's offices and other providers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials.

[snip]Health and Human Services chief Kathleen Sebelius now has authority to bypass federal rules when opening alternative care sites, such as offsite hospital centers at schools or community centers if hospitals seek permission.

Some hospitals have opened drive-thrus and drive-up tent clinics to screen and treat swine flu patients. The idea is to keep infectious people out of regular emergency rooms and away from other sick patients.

Hospitals could modify patient rules — for example, requiring them to give less information during a hectic time — to quicken access to treatment, with government approval, under the declaration.

[yoe]

Cont:He said the pandemic keeps evolving, the rates of illness are rising rapidly in many areas and there's a potential "to overburden health care resources."

The government now hopes to have about 50 million doses of swine flu vaccine out by mid-November and 150 million in December. The flu virus has to be grown in chicken eggs, and the yield hasn't been as high as was initially hoped, officials have said.

"Many millions" of Americans have had swine flu so far, according to an estimate that CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden gave Friday. The government doesn't test everyone to confirm swine flu so it doesn't have an exact count. He also said there have been more than 20,000 hospitalizations.

60 Million people were infected: 300,000 people were hospitalized: 12,460 people died. News presenters like Lemon, Blitzer, Matthews, Holt, Maddow, Ramos, Scarborough and side-kick...these people have smeared President Trump daily but allowed president Obama to slip and slide, forever praising the man for what he didn't do and what he did do....Pelosi making out like the bandit she is, grabbing what $$$$$ she can for her agenda/lobbyists on the backs of the coronavirus and its victims....

[Fido969]

Ought to rub Joe Biden’s face in this.

[McGavin999]

On April 26, 2009, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared Swine Flu a public health emergency. [126] On October 24, 2009, “President Barack Obama declared Swine Flu a national emergency in the United States. On November 12, 2009, the CDC reported an estimated 22 million Americans had been infected with 2009 A H1N1 and 4,000 Americans have died.[127] On December 10, 2009, the CDC reported an estimated 50 million Americans or 1 in 6 people had been infected with the 2009 A H1N1 Virus and 10,000 Americans had died, by which time the vaccine was beginning to be widely distributed to the general public by several states.[128] On December 23, 2009 the CDC reported a reduction of the disease by 59% percent and the disease was expected to end in the United States in January 2010.”

From Wikipedia. It took Obama Biden took 6 months to declare an emergency.

[eyeamok]

And Today the United States is witnessing History in the Making, this is the First Time a Virus has been Transmitted Nationwide through Television.

[bigbob]

0.02% mortality rate vs 3.6% so far for covid-19

[Da Coyote]

What is an Obama?

Is it a virus., bacteria, or something common like feces or pond scum?

[funfan]

Demon.

[TLI]

“It took Obama Biden took 6 months to declare an emergency”

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The commie media golf clapped.

I know it is wrong to hate but just damn!

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[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Amoeba.

[frogjerk]

0.02% mortality rate vs 3.6% so far for covid-19

Comparing apples and oranges. The sample of known people infected for Covid-19 is way too small to compare

[airborne]

Bookmark for smart-ass liberal who thinks Obama was a god

[Buckeye McFrog]

Thank you for injecting a note of mathematical sanity here.

[Sarah Barracuda]

and hardly a mention of this in the commie media..I dont remember any panic, I went out lived my life, didnt even know about this virus..it was all about protecting Obama so they made no big deal out of it

[zeestephen]

Who was Vice President in 2009?

Oh...now I remember.

[xrmusn]

PDJT should declare an emergency and ban gatherings over 500 people (THAT would allow the LIBs to hold their rallies) and as an extra precaution, the Presidential Race will be postponed but the Congressional races can go as scheduled.

At least it will give the wags something to pontificate about and get their shorts in a wad.

Interesting that the NBA decided to cancel games etc BUT allowed the teams to practice.....

Like the cartoon I saw the other day with BO saying he had to withstand all of the W ‘bullshiff’ for 8 years and now PDJT gets to get the glory for all the ‘good’ BO did.
Someone hands BO a note that says the market dropped 1000 today and BO says....Except for today, the rest is mine..

A legend in his own mind with a lapdog press running interference...

Like Chris Plante is wont to say, ‘the worst ‘sin’ of the media is what they DON’T report’

[Buckeye McFrog]

Interesting that the NBA decided to cancel games etc BUT allowed the teams to practice.....

That I did NOT know.

The only rational excuse for shutting down the NBA season is that sports locker rooms are natural incubators for microbes (warm, humid, crowded, sweat and body fluids, etc.)

If they are still practicing obviously they don't care about that. The real mission is to disrupt the sense of normalcy in the country and make people disenchanted with Trump.

[Autonomous User]

“Today the United States is witnessing History in the Making, this is the First Time a Virus has been Transmitted Nationwide through Television.”

I am so Stealing that!

[dfwgator]

If they are still practicing obviously they don't care about that. The real mission is to disrupt the sense of normalcy in the country and make people disenchanted with Trump.

That is my belief as well. Not so much that I don't think it is a good idea to do this. But I bet you a dollar Trump-Hater Extraordinaire LeBron James probably personally went to the Commissionner and demanded they shut down the season, knowing all the other leagues would follow suit.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The REAL smoking gun is that the NBA announced this decision within MINUTES of Trump signing-off from the Oval Office. Knocked what he had to say COMPLETELY out of the headlines.

Mission Accomplished.

[rfp1234]

H1N1 infected 60.8 million Americans. And it’s still around on top of everything else.