Issues & Insights points out this morning the reasons why former Veep Joe Biden didn’t want to go there when President Donald Trump brought up the H1N1 epidemic:
“According to the Centers for Disease Control’s latest numbers, out of the more than 200,000 people who died with COVID-19, only 92 were under age 18.
“But 1,282 children died from the H1N1 pandemic of 2009-2010, when Barack Obama was in the White House and Joe Biden was vice president.
“The number of children hospitalized from COVID has been around 8,000.
“But 1,282 children died from the H1N1 pandemic of 2009-2010, when Barack Obama was in the White House and Joe Biden was vice president.
“The number of children hospitalized from COVID has been around 8,000.
The number hospitalized because of H1N1 – 86,813.
“The swine flu was particularly worrisome because, unlike COVID and the seasonal flu – this one targeted the young more than the elderly.
“The swine flu was particularly worrisome because, unlike COVID and the seasonal flu – this one targeted the young more than the elderly.
In fact, fully 10% of the deaths from H1N1 were age 17 or younger, while just 13% were over age 65.”--Posted by
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