Swine Flu and the Obama administration...deflection indeed.
On April 26, 2009, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared Swine Flu a public health emergency.
On October 24, 2009, President Barack Obama declared Swine Flu a national emergency in the United States.
On November 12, 2009, the CDC reported an estimated 22 million Americans had been infected with 2009 A H1N1 and 4,000 Americans have died.
On December 10, 2009, the CDC reported an estimated 50 million Americans or 1 in 6 people had been infected with the 2009 A H1N1 Virus and 10,000 Americans had died, by which time the vaccine was beginning to be widely distributed to the general public by several states.
On December 23, 2009 the CDC reported a reduction of the disease by 59% percent and the disease was expected to end in the United States in January 2010.