Didn't seem like it at the outset (which is where we are now) - the initial estimates were wildly inflated: https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/22/1/7/48992

Didn't seem like it at the outset (which is where we are now) - the initial estimates were wildly inflated: https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/22/1/7/489927 https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/22/1/7/489927. And yet still, nothing whatsoever was done. Nobody was criticized for the lack of response, and, as I said above, the CDC budget was cut the following year.