I guess that's a reflection on how competently it was handled. There were 60 million people in the US infected by H1N1 in 2009, and 12 000 of them died. It was

I guess that's a reflection on how competently it was handled. There were 60 million people in the US infected by H1N1 in 2009, and 12 000 of them died. It wasn't handled any better than COVID-19, the only difference between then and now is that COVID-19 is much, much, much worse than H1N1. We just got lucky in 2009.