Gene DellaSala Has Coronavirus

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.

Wasn't swine flu or it's variant around back in the mid 70's???

In two to four weeks you will no longer hear about it.....it will go away when warm weather gets here. People will be like corona what? Yet the devastation to our economy, and over what really, will remain. sickening really. 

Just another example of selective history. If you bothered to read the link provided, you’d see that the virus was discovered on April 15 and on April 18, the CDC reported it to the WHO and coordinated efforts.

By April 21, the CDC began working on the vaccine. By the 22nd, the CDC opened it’s EOC (emergency operations center) and by the 24th completed gene sequencing, offering it to the world to speed up research and response. Did you forget that it takes 12-18 months to come up with a vaccine?

I could go on but you can read it all for yourself. Everything you cite was done to speed things up but we were on top of it, unlike now.

All the best,
Nonoise