Gene DellaSala Has Coronavirus

"No panic" because we were "Right on top of it!"
I love how people re-write history.... LoLz

This was 6 months AFTER the Swine flu emerged in April 2009.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/64599-obama-declares-swine-flu-a-national-emergency

President Barack Obama has declared the H1N1 flu pandemic a national emergency to prepare in case of a rapid increase in illness across the country.

Obama signed the proclamation late Friday giving medical facilities more leeway to handle the surge in patients with the H1N1 virus by waiving federal requirements on a case-by-case basis.

“Given that the rapid increase in illness across the Nation may overburden health care resources and that the temporary waiver of certain standard federal requirements may be warranted in order to enable U.S. health care facilities to implement emergency operations plans, the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in the United States constitutes a national emergency,” Obama wrote in the proclamation.

Millions of Americans have reportedly been infected with what is commonly referred to as the swine flu.

Thomas Frieden, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday that more than a thousand people have died as a result of the H1N1 flu virus.

Obama also informed Congress about his proclamation of a national emergency.

“I have authorized the Secretary of Health and Human Services to exercise the authority under section 1135 of the Social Security Act to temporarily waive or modify certain requirements of the Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children’s Health Insurance programs and of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule as necessary to respond to the pandemic throughout the duration of the public health emergency declared in response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic,” Obama wrote to Congress.

Meanwhile, the vaccine against H1N1 has been in short supply. Flu clinics are swamped this weekend across the country with long lines of people trying to get the vaccine.

Ya I like the warm fuzzy of us all gathering in six months for the after action review...

except it ain’t gonna be all of us....

and with friends, family and past co-workers in Italy... the overload of ICU is killing people with other malady as HC staff are forced to make brutal allocative decisions...add the ICU required % to your calculations and this virus is deadly way way beyond swine flu

Let’s see, in Massachusetts 101 people supposedly have it.....hmmm, population of the state 6.9 million, let’s do math.....101 divided by 6,900,000 = .0000146 people have it. Lolzzzzz
Run for the hills.......clear the store shelves of that sanitizer.....oh and toilet paper???? Will never grasp that one, sorry. 

By October 2009 an estimated 20,000 people had been hospitalized with Swine flu with over 1,000 deaths.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-flu-usa-obama/obama-declares-swine-flu-a-national-emergency-idUSTRE59N19E20091024

H1N1, declared a public health emergency earlier in the year, has killed more than 1,000 people in the United States and put more than 20,000 in the hospital since it emerged earlier this year, the CDC said. But health officials are quick to note that the actual number of cases cannot be measured.

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03-12-2020 7:56pmand with friends, family and past co-workers in Italy... the overload of ICU is killing people with other malady as HC staff are forced to make brutal allocative decisions...

Are you purposely trying to misstate the reason for the high mortality rate in Italy???

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-deaths-from-coronavirus-are-so-high-in-italy/

One factor affecting the country’s death rate may be the age of its population—Italy has the oldest population in Europe, with about 23% of residents 65 or older, according to The New York Times. The median age in the country is 47.3, compared with 38.3 in the United States, the Times reported. Many of Italy’s deaths have been among people in their 80s, and 90s, a population known to be more susceptible to severe complications from COVID-19, according to The Local.

Given Italy’s older population, “you would expect their mortality rate to be higher on average, all else being held equal,” compared with a country with a younger population, Gordon told Live Science.