The media cheered this too, they really are haters.
There never was a counting of people who died from H1N1 and certainly not an official tally of people who tested positive for it.
They stopped counting in 2009 and ran with estimates through 2010 and they settled on the middle wild arsed guess number between high and low estimates.
More like 9,000+ that died from the chinese virus according to the CDC. If you died from anything else and had the virus it was counted as the gov’t paid extra for positive results. Think medicare fraud but on a huge scale.