How long did it take the Obama Administration to declare a health emergency in 2009? How many were infected and how many dead before that emergency was declared.
How long before the Obama Administration initiated limited travel bans and quarantines at our ports of entry?
Where was the constant drumbeat of condemnations from the likes of the major broadcast networks, CNN, and MSNBC?
Where were the endless cries of incompetence and gloom and doom just around the corner from every republican with a twitter account or access to a microphone?
How many people had died before the emergency was declared in 2009?
How many people had died in the US before Trump declared an emergency and started taking actions to limit new cases coming into the US and getting the CDC, NIH and other relevant agencies ramped up for the fight?
President Obama signed a proclamation declaring the H1N1influenza a national emergency, giving doctors and medical facilities greater leeway in responding to the flu pandemic.
Obama signed the declaration late Friday, which the White House said allows medical treatment facilities to better handle a surge in flu patients by waiving federal requirements on a case-by-case basis.
“The foundation of our national approach to the H1N1 flu has been preparedness at all levels – personal, business, and government – and this proclamation helps that effort by advancing our overall response capability,” the White House said in a statement.
In the proclamation, Obama said the pandemic keeps evolving, the rates of illness are rising rapidly in many areas and there’s a potential “to overburden health care resources.”
