The claim: There is a double standard in the response to the H1N1 swine flu pandemic vs. COVID-19. Our rating: Partly false
A claim in the form of a meme about allegedly uneven responses to the H1N1 swine flu pandemic of 2009 and the COVID-19 pandemic was shared nearly 5,000 times on Facebook., which contains case statistics of each disease within the United States, an arbitrary"panic level," who was blamed for the pandemic and the federal government's response beneath images of former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump.No one panicked when U.S. cases of the swine flu reached 60.
The meme also states the public blamed China for H1N1 while Trump received the blame for the spread of COVID-19.USA TODAY reached out to the poster for comment.The meme correctly observes an estimated 60.8 million cases of H1N1 affected the United States from April 12, 2009, to April 10, 2010,But the claim inaccurately compares a year's worth of data to present COVID-19 statistics, which encompass no more than eight months.
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