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Barack Obama: “We are not ready for it. If you look at the last pandemic we had on U.S. soil, that was the Spanish flu that took place…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2005
We are not ready for it. If you look at the last pandemic we had on U.S. soil, that was the Spanish flu that took place in 1918, 1919, you had literally millions of deaths. And unfortunately this is one of these situations where if you had a flu that mutated that was brand new, had human to human transmission, you could see a million deaths. You could see 10 million people hospitalized. We don't have the infrastructure or the capacity to deal with that.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Senator Obama discusses the lack of preparedness for a potential avian flu pandemic.

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