H1N1 Swine Flu 2009, do you remember?

[Panina]

I am having a hard time remembering the outbreak of the H1n1 swine flu in 2009.

I am wondering if I was in so much grief of losing my husband that I just had my head in the sand.

Just seeing a program on tv, it was bad all over the world with many sicknesses and deaths. Interestingly the stock market increased significantly during this time.

 

[TravelTime]

I do not remember much about it either.

 

[Luanne]

The only thing I remember is that was the first year I got a flu shot based on a recommendation of my doctor.

 

[CPNY]

I am having a hard time remembering the outbreak of the H1n1 swine flu in 2009.

I am wondering if I was in so much grief of losing my husband that I just had my head in the sand.

Just seeing a program on tv, it was bad all over the world with many sicknesses and deaths. Interestingly the stock market increased significantly during this time.

I remember it because a work trip was cancelled. My mother had it, she was knocked out with it for three weeks. I think at that time the media focused on it for about a month then on to the next story. If the curve is flattened you won’t hear how we did a great job flattening the curve, little by little you hear about it less and less and everyone will gradually go back to work. My concern is the last effects this will have. People with random coughs or sneezes from now into the future will be met with stares, comments and possible violence.

 

[slip]

I remember it. We went through the same protocols at work. 20 million In the US got it and 4,000 died in the US.

 

[chellej]

It did not get the same amount of coverage by the media and I don't remember any restrctions

 

[slip]

A National Emergency was declared. But the media coverage was different, no doubt.

 

[easyrider]

I remember Mexico having alot of cases with some deaths which caused tourism in unaffected areas of Mexico to crash. Oddly, if I remember correctly, there were way more deaths from h1n1 in the USA than Mexico.

Bill

 

[Roger830]

A look back at swine flu: 8 facts about the world's last pandemic in 2009 - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis

The World Health Organization on March 11 declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, the first such declaration in 11 years.

www.beckershospitalreview.com

Here's a look back on the 2009 swine flu pandemic with eight key facts from the CDC:

1. The flu strain responsible for the outbreak — influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 — was first detected in America in April 2009.

2. The strain represented a unique combination of influenza viruses never before seen in humans or animals.

3. The virus quickly spread globally, primarily affecting children and adults under 65 who lacked immunity to H1N1.

4. The WHO declared the swine flu outbreak a pandemic on June 11, 2009.

5. Between April 12, 2009, and April 10, 2010, the CDC estimates swine flu caused 60.8 million illnesses, 273,304 hospitalizations and 12,469 deaths in the U.S.

6. On Oct. 5, 2009, the U.S. began administering a newly approved H1N1 vaccine to select Americans, with vaccination coverage expanding nationwide by that December.

7. WHO declared an end to the pandemic on Aug. 10, 2010.

8. Globally, an estimated 151,700 to 575,400 people died from swine flu in the first year of the pandemic.

 

[rapmarks]

I think I got it. I had a scratchy throat and decided to get it checked, my 90 year old mother was supposed to fly down the next day. I tested positive and the doctor was surprised because I was 65. I was told to ask my mother to wait a coupLe days, they said it could kill her. She cancelled the trip and never came to visit me in Florida again. I always felt so bad because she had been looking forward to the trip. A year later I went back to the walk in clinic and the doctor rememberEd me, his first case of H1N1.