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The Trump administration has responded quite slowly compared to the Obama administration's response to H1N1. The CDC commenced emergency operations a week after
by AlexCoventry 7y ago
The Trump administration has responded quite slowly compared to the Obama administration's response to H1N1. The CDC commenced emergency operations a week after the first H1N1 case was detected, and advised school closings less than a week after that [0]. It seems likely that Trump's unfavorable comparison of the Obama H1N1 response to his COVID-19 response will come back to haunt him [1]. We'd be extremely lucky to get away with only 12,000 US deaths, this time.
[0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-pandemic-timeline.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-pandemic-tim...
[1] https://www.countable.us/articles/42948-tale-2-pandemics-government-s-response https://www.countable.us/articles/42948-tale-2-pandemics-gov...
- AlexCoventry 7y agoI'm curious about why this is being downvoted.
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- roenxi 7y agoYou're comparing the Trump and Obama administrations handling of different diseases and it looks like you are making a partisan point. This is the early phase of a crisis. Now is the time to call on leaders to do things; not to politic about whether something could have happened a bit earlier or not. Trump is still going to be held responsible for the administration's performance; but now isn't the time. Nobody is going to bother going back to compare this to the Obama Administration's H1N1 response. The H1N1 response is not a useful guide for how to deal with the piles of dead bodies that are about to start appearing outside hospitals.
- AlexCoventry 7y agoInteresting perspective. Thanks.