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Originally Posted by insidethewrapper
Was anything cancelled in 2009 ?????
H1N1(swine flu) was first detected in April 2009 in a 10-year-old girl in California. It was declared a global pandemic in June 2009 by the World Health Organization (WHO) and was finally over in August 2010.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that swine flu infected nearly 61 million people in the United States and caused 12,469 deaths. Worldwide, up to 575,400 people died from pandemic swine flu.
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H1N1 affected the young and the healthy. Covid-19 affects the old and unhealthy but with way less of a mortality rate.
Media coverage/panic back then compared with today,,,,,,, huge difference.