the control investigation was the 2009 H1N1 flue that Ohumma oversaw... herd immunity? how many died ?
https://www.biospace.com/article/2009-h1n1-pandemic-versus-the-2020-coronavirus-pandemic/
“The 2009 H1N1 pandemic originated in the United States before spreading around the world, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A later study suggested it was first diagnosed in humans in Mexico. The CDC estimated that from April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, there were 60.8 million H1N1 cases, with 274,304 hospitalizations and 12,469 deaths in the U.S. alone. They also estimate that worldwide, 151,700 to 575,400 people died from (H1N1)pdm09 during the first year. Unusually, about 80% of the deaths were in people younger than 65 years of age.”
sooo successfully /s (covered up)
in the 2009 epidemic, the reason it didn’t kill mainly old folks is because a lot of older folks had some immunity to the 2009 influenza strain because we had been exposed to a similar strain in the 1970s.
there is also a report that the “swine flu” shot given in 1974 gave folks some immunity against this strain.