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It sounds like he could only be referring to 2014 and later then? I.e. not swine flu.
Yeah, then he probably was mixing things up (either who was mayor or when he did what where). I doubt he’d be talking about the Ebola outbreak since we only had 4 cases in the U.S. I think it was the biggest Ebola outbreak ever in West Africa but unless the mayor of Detroit’s duties include being the super secret Global Emergency Epidemiologist, not sure why he’d talk to him about that.
Just an aside: it’s kind of crazy that we had SARS, MERS, the Ebola outbreak, multiple Avian flus, swine flu, and several more since 2000 and COVID-19 is the one that spread around the world and killed the most people. It really illustrates how a relatively low mortality rate — I think SARS and MERS were 30%-40% and COVID-19 was like 2% — can be worse overall if it’s transmissible enough between humans.