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The claim

"It took Barack Obama until October of 2009 to declare Swine Flu a National Health Emergency. It began in April of ’09 but Obama waited until 20,000 people in the US had been hospitalized & 1,000+ had died."

Original publisher’s rating

False.

Reviewed by The New York Times ↗ ·

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Sources and attribution

    Original review: The New York Times. Structured data compiled by Data Commons under CC BY 4.0. Publisher article content is subject to its own terms.

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