What did Donald Trump claim about the pandemic on 12 Mar 2020?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
If you go back and look at the swine flu and what happened with the swine flu, you'll see how many people died and how actually nothing was done for such a long period of time, as people were dying all over the place.
The government acted within days. The first U.S. H1N1 case was detected on April 15, 2009; by April 26 it had declared a public health emergency and the CDC was releasing antiviral drugs from the federal stockpile.
The CDC's 2009 H1N1 timeline records the first U.S. infection on April 15, 2009, the CDC Emergency Operations Center activated on April 22, and on April 26 'The United States Government declared 2009 H1N1 a Public Health Emergency' as the 'CDC began releasing 25% of antiviral drugs needed to treat this new influenza virus from the federal stockpile' (CDC, 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Timeline).
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- Remarks before a meeting with Prime Minister Leo Varadkar of Ireland and exchange with reporters, Oval Office.
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