I would enjoy reading your proof that Obama did that.
For your reading enjoyment (I hope you like non-fiction):
Obama gave the agencies the authority to ACT, including the science/health/med community led FDA and CDC, in a centralized, national, fed led response:
“The facts are as follows: On April 21, 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first U.S. cases of H1N1. One week later, the Food and Drug Administration approved a diagnostic test. The same day, CDC issued guidance for whether to close schools, resulting in some closures. The actual diagnostic test was shipped on May 1, 2009. On June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization declared the novel H1N1 to be A pandemic.”
(see 6th para):
What Trump is getting wrong about Obama’s response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
The effort included fed release of med supplies, drugs and development of a vaccine:
“Sensing this threat, the Obama administration acted early and decisively to prevent the swine flu pandemic from devastating the U.S. Just a week after the flu first appeared in Mexico, Obama instructed every federal agency to play a role in preparing the U.S. for a pandemic. H1N1 was first detected in the U.S. on April 15, 2009 and within a week, the CDC had already begun working to develop a vaccine and activated its Emergency Operations Center to respond to what it identified as a growing public health threat.”
“Eleven days after the first case was confirmed, the federal government declared a public health emergency and began releasing medical supplies and drugs from the CDC’s Strategic National Stockpile. By April 28, 2009, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new CDC test to detect H1N1 infections.”
(see 11th, 12th para):
Obama Prepared for a Potential Pandemic. Trump Gutted His Work.
Though Obama was very much involved, he let others make the decisions and the health experts and science lead the way, as then HHS Secty Sebelius said:
“From Day 1, [Obama] said: ‘We will be led by the facts. We need to tell people what we know and what we don’t know,’” Sebelius said. She said she and her team held twice-a-day press conferences to do that."
'At one point, in June 2009, Obama invited experts who helped respond to the 1976 swine flu outbreak to a private meeting at the White House. He wanted to know “what went right and what went wrong. What do we need to learn, how do we need to do this,” Sebelius said.'
(see 3rd, 4th para Lessons From H1N1 section):
No, President Trump, the Coronavirus Is Nothing Like H1N1 Swine Flu Either — ProPublica
And as Sebelius also said, later on Mar 24, 2020:
“I also worked for a president that believed from the outset that the science was really important,” she said.
(see 4th para):
Managing a pandemic: Former HHS Secretary Sebelius recounts H1N1 experiences, criticizes federal response to coronavirus | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas
The people agreed:
‘But confidence in the 2009 H1N1 response was the second highest, not "one of the worst on record." The averages of two polls in 2009 showed that 67% of respondents were very confident or somewhat confident in the federal government’s ability to handle the H1N1 outbreak. Those two polls were released in May and August of that year, about a month and four months into the outbreak.’
“Public confidence in the federal government’s handling of the Zika virus, Ebola virus, and bird flu were lower than for H1N1.”
(see 15th, 16th, para):
PolitiFact | Fact-checking Trump’s attacks on Obama-Biden swine flu response
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