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tony

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Re: short summaries
« on: March 27, 2020, 12:38:30 pm »
The 2009 swine flu infected 1.4 Billion people around the world, and killed 575,000 people. There was no media panic, and societies did not shut down.  Swine Flu was an inefficient virus and was no where near as contagious as COVID-19. Mortality rate to infections in Swine flu was also much higher. But it just didn’t have the potential to become the type of pandemic that COVID-19 does.

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2009 swine flu was more contagious (except in summer) but less lethal than COVID-19
in USA 20% were infected in 2009 and 12000 died from it in 2009
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html
worldwide probably only ~200000 deaths, 575000 is the upper-end-estimate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic
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