Under President Obama in 2009 to 2010, the coronavirus H1N1 struck the world. CDC assessments put the number of U.S. cases at 60.8 million, hospitalized at 274,000 and deaths at 12,649. I don’t remember that being called the Obama pandemic.
Columnist Paul Krugman called COVID-19 the Trump pandemic. Krugman is allowed his opinion, but he proves over and over he is a biased hack.
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