How did the government respond to H1N1?

How did the government respond to H1N1?

The United States Government declared 2009 H1N1 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and CDC began releasing 25% of antiviral drugs needed to treat this new influenza virus from the federal stockpile.

How did H1N1 affect the economy?

Results: The annual socioeconomic costs of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza were US$1.09 billion (0.14% of the national GDP). Direct costs included US$322.6 million (29.6% of total costs) of direct medical costs, with an additional US$105.4 million (9.7% of total cost) of direct non-medical costs.

Which country started H1N1?

The EAsw H1N1, which is derived from avian H1N1, was first detected in Belgium in 1979 and since then has become established in the European swine population (Pensaert et al., 1981; Scholtissek et al., 1983; Brown, 2000).

What country was most affected by H1N1?

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009–2010 by country

When was H1N1 declared a pandemic?

The 2009 swine flu pandemic, caused by the H1N1 influenza virus and declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) from June 2009 to August 2010, is the third recent flu pandemic involving the H1N1 virus (the first being the 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic and the second being the 1977 Russian flu).

How did H1N1 affect businesses?

Closing all US schools for 4 weeks to curb the spread of pandemic flu would cost between $10 billion and $47 billion in lost workforce productivity and temporarily shrink the pool of healthcare workers by 6% to 19%, according to a report today from economists at the Brookings Institution.

What is the economic impact of the flu?

The estimated average economic cost of influenza in the United States exceeds $1 billion each year, and the actual cost is more likely on the order of $3 to $5 billion per year.

Where did 2009 H1N1 start?

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