Politifact, while also a site running defense for Obama and the Dems, discloses some more facts:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/20...-health-emerge/


 Quote:
From April 12, 2009, to April 10, 2010, in the United States, there were 60.8 million cases of swine flu, 274,304 hospitalizations and 12,469 deaths, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated.


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 Quote:
Obama’s acting director of health and human services declared H1N1 a public health emergency on April 26, 2009.
That was when only 20 cases of H1N1 — and no deaths — around the country had been confirmed.

H1N1 [a k a, Swine Flu] was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on June 11, 2009.
In other words, the Obama administration’s public health emergency declaration came more than six weeks before the pandemic designation.


On Oct. 24, 2009, six months after his administration declared H1N1 a public health emergency, Obama declared it a national emergency.
At that point, H1N1 had claimed more than 1,000 American lives, according to the CDC.


Just getting around the carefully chosen language here, I'd say a "pandemic" is occurring when a disease has already spread to over 40 of 200 nations worldwide, and to every continent but Antarctica. When this has occurred, it doesn't matter whether it has officially labelled by WHO or CDC or whoever as a "pandemic", it fucking damn well is a pandemic already, regardless of the official terms.

In the cases of both Obama and Trump, they both for the most part followed the recommendations of their NIH/CDC medical experts. And in both cases they declared emergencies in advance of an official "pandemic" declaration by the WHO or NIH/CDC.

I'd say the leadership that both these liberal sites like to gloss over is that :
1) Trump (amid impeachment, no less) took the decisive step of cutting off flights from China to avoid further spread of the virus. And the liberal media called him "racist" and so forth for taking that pragmatic step to protect Americans.
2) Trump over the previous year had done much to secure the Southern border from illegals (down 90%) that no other president, Democrat or Republican, certainly not Obama or Hillary, would have done.

and
3) Trump had us in a trade war with China for the last year, that had pushed a lot of manufacturing in China to neighboring countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, India and the Phillipines, right before Coronavirus immobilized China. And because of that push of maanufacturing out of China, the U.S. was far less reliant on China and had diversified its suppliers, right before the Covid-19 outbreak began. China's poor handling and steadily lying about the Coronavirus outbreak, will only serve to push even more manufacturing out of China, and for national security and economic independence reasons, much of that manufacturing will return to being domestically produced in the United States.


None of these facts are adequately covered in these Democrat/Obama-favoring "factcheck" listings.