Posted on 10/01/2020 12:26:03 PM PDT by SJackson
Katie Pavlich| @KatiePavlich|Posted: Jul 16, 2020
uring an event at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., Biden campaign advisor Ron Klein, who also worked for Vice President Biden in the White House and led the response to the Ebola outbreak, explained how the Obama administration did "everything wrong" in response to the 2009 swine flu crisis.
"I wasn't involved directly in the H1N1 response but I lived through it as a White House staffer and what I would say about it is a bunch of really talented, really great people were working on it and we did every possible thing wrong. Sixty million Americans got H1N1 during that period of time. It is purely a fortuity that this isn’t one of the great mass casualty events in American history. It had nothing to do with us doing anything right. It was just luck.
After the national strategic stockpile was depleted, the Obama administration failed to refill it. When Wuhan coronavirus hit, it was severely lacking in much needed personal protective equipment and other supplies.
After the swine flu epidemic in 2009, a safety-equipment industry association and a federally sponsored task force both recommended that depleted supplies of N95 respirator masks, which filter out airborne particles, be replenished by the stockpile, which is maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
That didn’t happen, according to Charles Johnson, president of the International Safety Equipment Assn.
The stockpile drew down about 100 million masks during the 2009 epidemic, Johnson said.
“Our association is unaware of any major effort to restore the stockpile to cover that drawdown,” he said.
“After the national strategic stockpile was depleted, the Obama administration failed to refill it.”
They actually made a decision not to refill it and instead use “vendor management” locally.
How did they know more people weren’t killed by the H1N1? Did they do a test on every flu death?
They saved those results and rolled them into COVID deaths which is why the COVID deaths are so high. (/sarc)
L8r
EXACTLY they don’t know how many people had it OR died from it because they flat out STOPPED counting!! If Trump even tried to stop counting OMG everyone’s hair would be on fire heads exploding everywhere!!
If hospitals were paid 20% to 25% more for H1N1 hospitalizations than flu, you might well have seen more. A much less serious event, except for the young, but if the response, detailed in the Politico link in post 1, forcasts a Biden reaction, we’ll be in trouble if he battles the next pandemic.
I keep thinking its a babylon bee headline.
Caught this in the Politico piece:
***Klain now says his comments, which were made at a biosecurity summit, referred solely to the administration’s difficulties in producing enough of an H1N1 vaccine to meet public demand. The Obama team, he says, quickly adapted to the situation, making choices that were starkly different from those the Trump administration would make 11 years later, such as quickly distributing emergency equipment from the federal stockpile, deferring to public health experts and having them take the lead on messaging.***
Let me post a portion of that again.
***The Obama team, he says, quickly adapted to the situation, making choices that were starkly different from those the Trump administration would make 11 years later, such as quickly distributing emergency equipment from the federal stockpile,***
Starkly different because Obama depleted the supply of equipment in the stockpile? That’s OBAMA’S FAULT you turds at Politico. Not Trump’s.
Go suck an egg. Politico, Klein, Biden, and Obama. We’ve had enough of your type!
President Trump is the right man for the job of keeping our country safe AND moving forward to a better functioning country, and away from the tyranny of Marxism.
Why is this not getting more media attention? Oh yeah, that’s right.
Lucky; yes but only because it’s the way we should have handled this virus too.
Also, the Obama Administration created rule changes late in their term which sabotaged the production of testing until the FDA was directed just to ignore the penalties for private development and production of the tests.
If hospitals were paid 20% to 25% more for H1N1 hospitalizations than flu, you might well have seen more. A much less serious event, except for the young, but if the response, detailed in the Politico link in post 1, forcasts a Biden reaction, we’ll be in trouble if he battles the next pandemic.
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Exactly. Every kid who had the flu would have been admitted to the hospital for four days and half of them would have been driving the nurses crazy because they didn’t feel all that bad and were bored.
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