Would Obama have contained Coronavirus? ?

Just about every nation, including the US, had the same problem - initially they had a small number of cases imported by international travellers. Health authorities were on the look-out for these cases, but since Covid-19 was new, the tests at the time were new and were somewhat flawed. Countries caught these cases, and thought they were on top of things.

What we now know is that large numbers of people were asymptomatic. In others, symptoms could appear nearly two weeks after exposure. What it meant was that the point nations thought they were at was about two to four weeks behind the actual conditions on the ground.

So the reality is, who you had as President at that time really wouldn't have made a difference. The virus would have arrived and spread across the US. It is worth pointing out that Ebola and H1N1 have Ro values of around 1.6 and testing is well developed for those. Covid-19 is closer to 3 and can be as high as 5 in densely populated areas. Plus it was new. In other words, success in dealing with other outbreaks was unlikely to mean success in this outbreak. You can't act without information, and information was behind the reality.

Health authorities were suddenly caught off guard when all those 'hidden' cases resulted in a rapid explosion of 'detected' cases. From that moment onwards, speed was the essence.

This is where Trump's administration failed. They moved to downplay the seriousness, and played up the politics. Federal response was broken, slow, and uncoordinated. It was governors and mayors who took the lead, with federal government playing catch-up.

Whether Obama would have done better ... I think almost certainly. He wouldn't have tried to turn a pandemic into a political point scoring exercise. 

Obama declared H1N1 a public health emergency at the end of April 2009 before a single American had died and weeks before the WHO declared a pandemic.

Obama put into place a pandemic response team which Trump dismantled.  It was Obama's response to the Ebola and H1N1 crises that prevented these diseases from becoming an epidemic in the US.  If you remember there was only one death in the US from Ebola. If Obama were still president you wouldn't be seeing what is currently happening with Covid-19 in the US. 

No one could have contained it but you can bet Obama would have done a better job on slowing it down in the early stages.  He definitely would not have said we only have one case and it will not be a problem. 

Nobody could have completely, but he certainly wouldn’t have been reckless with peoples lives like Trump. And he’d be hated by American people for doing it too. They’d see it as some kind of communism. This is because they are all uneducated red neck hillbilly’s. Every one of them. Without any exception to the rule. 

Yeee haa

No of course not. But the media would have pretended he had found a cure.

No chance. He run the economy into the ground, so would have done far worse than Trump.
He's a mixed race moron.

He couldn't have done any worse than Trump the chump. 

Oh yes and so many would be alive. Obama has a conscience and he cares about all Americans.  
Trump can't be bothered and has to play golf with his rich buddies and Twitter hate late at night. 

He and biden didn't take care of Ebola very well when it was here, perhaps most forgot about that one, only thing barry was good at was destroying america.

As a former democrat myself, let me point out one flaw in democrats mentality, we have a tendency to buy other peoples B.S. without researching facts, and even when were faced with facts contradicting our position, were still complacent.... Obama was heavily criticized on H1N1 and Ebola, I voted for the guy, I now know he is nothing but smoke and mirrors with his facts, eventually herd immunity comes into play before a vaccine does, so Obama didn't solve any great plague, he is a professional liar like his vice presidential pick.
 

NO. people were not flying into our country from China with Ebola in 2009". that was a completely different set of circumstances. Ebola was well known way before Obama did anything and strategies were already in place at the time to deal with it. Covid was novel and Trump did the best with what he had at the time. they still don't know where it originated from or when it started. i think any administration would have been taken by surprise with this".

Possibly not, but he would have taken it seriously.

Probably not given the over-riding stupidity of elements of the US populace!
However , he would at least have tried to contain the virus and not encouraged those less intellectually endowed elements to ignore it and it would magically disappear - like a certain odious orange oaf suggested repeatedly!

The simple answer to your question is yes, John.  But President Obama did not "fly solo" on problem-solving for the nation---he put into place a top-notch team of highly qualified professionals with whom he met on a daily basis, and after he'd gotten intelligence input, he then made a fully-informed executive decision using the best data and science from those group meetings.  

This is not what Donald Trump did or does, unfortunately. 

Look back on how the Ebola outbreak in Africa was handled, for example. The U.S. sent our own professionals to the hot spots, and simultaneously launched an exploratory research team to set up data gathering in order to learn as much as possible about the disease and its victims.  The Koch-controlled Republican party chose to badmouth the hugely popular Barack Obama at every level instead of trying to be part of the solution, if you recall---propagandizing if American nurses, doctors, or others from the infected areas tried to return to the U.S. after exposure, seeking treatment in our nation's high-quality hospitals.  Foreigner-owned hidden-agenda Fox News was especially hyperbolic in its anti-Obama, anti-government (domestic-terrorist) hysteria-generating propaganda against anyone with Ebola coming to America.  No-Drama Obama ignored all this right-wing propaganda, however, and took a strong leadership role in handling Ebola cases---and the result: Only TWO Americans died.  

President Obama, like Bill Clinton (a fellow Leo) before him, loves to read and also comprehends what he reads, so the early warning of a possible novel (newly discovered) deadly pandemic that came in the PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing) would not have been ignored or overlooked as the COVID-19 warnings were by illiterate Donald Trump.  Once read, President Obama (or President Hillary Clinton) would have maintained the connections our nation had with the WHO and with China where COVID-19 was first discovered.  Trump did not...he foolishly and abruptly pulled all of our professionals out, thus keeping our own professionals from having access to the crucial information.  The so-called "ban" was impulsive and deeply flawed, allowing more than 450,000 people to leak through to other travel sites.  Recall that NYC's huge outbreak came from Europe.  Trump made egomaniacal noises about using the authority of the President to have manufacturers convert their operations to making needed medical supplies and equipment, but he NEVER DID AUTHORIZE the changes not even now!!  How come?  NO COHENSIVE FEDERAL PLAN was ever formed by anyone in the Trump administration, other than the proposed instructions by Dr. Fauci and the CDC professionals---instructions that COVID-denying incompetent Trump undermined repeatedly.  A nationwide mandate to wear masks would have saved thousands of lives, but vanity-prone sociopath Trump refused to issue such a mandate in January when the first cases were reported in the U.S. When our Governors got no federal input or help from the WH, they took the initiative with limited resources in this national crisis and sought to get their own medical supplies and equipment, only to have the Kushner-Trump-led corrupt profiteers either steal the state-paid-for supplies or bid against the cash-strapped states!!!  

Even somewhat incompetent GW Bush would have done better than Trump.  

Lets see H1 obama and biden let 60 million die then just gave up, a FACT!, So this one it may got up to 80 million just because the Communist democrats care for you and will kill off America if ever given the chance. Cnn, abc, cbs and huffing post, yahoo and others all should be put in prison for treason!

Obama would have got the same information from the experts he would have reacted in the same way

Seriously doubt it.

No. Please stop thinking that the USA has all the answers.

No, I don't think he would have.

Obama was the recipient of George Bush's planning. H1N1 and Ebola were contained using medical supplies stockpiled by the Bush administration in case of a pandemic. According to a report on ABC news "In 2005, President Bush and his administration put in place a comprehensive, national pandemic preparedness and response plan. “If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare,” Bush said in a speech at the National Institutes of Health in November 2005. “To respond to a pandemic, we need medical personnel and adequate supplies of equipment.”
This strategic initiative was an intense three-year effort lasting from late 2005 through January 2009, included $7 billion in funding, and created national stockpiles of critical supplies, such as face masks, ventilators, and other personal protective equipment (PPE). When the Bush administration came to an end in January 2009, so did the focus on a pandemic preparedness plan."
Stockpiles of face masks, syringes, hospital beds, ventilators, and other emergency materials were used for the 2009 H1N1 virus by the O
bama administration. The stockpiles served their purpose but were never fully replenished by the Obama- Biden administration. For instance, the Washington Post reported the stockpile was not replaced, even though almost 100 million masks were distributed in 2009. Similarly, the Obama-Biden administration did not re-stock the supply of ventilators. 
The needed supplies were not readily available for COVID crisis because they had not been replenished by the previous administration. 

No country has managed to contain the spread of Covid.  Sure, some are doing better than others.  But, I doubt any president could have contained this.  Ebola is much much much less infectious, though more deadly.  

Obama was very good at putting up fronts without actually doing anything. I believe it would have been worse and the media would have tried to cover up for him..

He would have worked hard to get it under control. He had things set up to work on pandemics and someone threw it in the trash like they did the Iran treaty. 

Sure Obama did this...
And he go Nobel Prize for this 4 years in advance....

What did he do, sign an executive order stopping it? No, Obama ordered the testing & reporting of H1N1

I remember just before his election Mr Obama was seen actually wrestling with a fugitive measles Virus and vanquishing it it a handful of seconds.
His quick response averted a major outbreak & saved the planet.
His shy retiring nature means only a Secret Few know the exactly precise details.

He would have taken swifter, decisive action, and not spent months swearing it was all a hoax and a democratic plot to hurt him ---like Trump died. 

He wouldn’t have ignored it, kept all the medicines and equipment for himself and his family.  He would have thrown as much energy and resources at it as he could, and would have never referred to it as a HOAX!

Only two people died of Ebola.  I should not have to say this, but that is a much lower number than the 176,000+ dead of Covid-19 (and many other with permanent damage). Obama even helped stamp out an Ebola outbreak in Africa, because he understand that viruses do not stop at the border. 

Mr Obama would have tell Amrican that the Corona Virus was there to hit us. he never would have gone two weeks to play gulf.and lied about the Virus. that is what a good President do. protect the people of his country.but not Trump.. 
Trump is a story teller with big lies horrible language.How can Melania and Trump understand each other.

oboma hahahahahahahaha 

What, you mean like other countries have?  Well, probably not.  You see, some people are just too stupid to live and it looks like we now know where they come from.

No, not any better than anyone could.

Yes.. He was a Genius 

Would Obama have contained Covid 19.?  His response would be like a president.  In other words he got the best people working on it giving him recommendations on what to do. Using  Science over "gut feelings" . 

He managed to keep the Swine Flu from going nuts, mind you we had a vaccine early.Ebola he kept in Africa. It stayed there. So that did not visit us in the U.S.   Totally a different bug.  It could be kept there.

Covid spread easily. In fact we were slow on method of transmission...because of various reports.
. Obama's response would have been better and SOONER AND DECISIVE.  He would not be playing golf.

C19 was worldwide almost overnight. Which is rare for any disease.

It does not matter. He is not the U.S. president NOW.  This is Donnie's REALITY.

Maybe not. Ebola is not as transmissible as covid-19. 

Yes. He had a pandemic response team and a plan.He knew what he was doing. 

 Probably way better than Agent Orange did for sure zxqvcf
 . . . . . . . . . .
 ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫ ⚫

Hello John,

Anyone is capable of being infected with covid-19.


My answer (below with slight-updating) has simply disappeared from the following question-thread. (When I look at that thread it says "Answered", but my answer is missing):
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20200819170537AAEoSTx

As Climate Change progresses, areas of the world previously-inhabitable will cease to be so, thus causing significant human-migration. For example, some areas may be subject to flooding, while others to drought.

Here is a discussion of an example projection:
“How Climate Change Could Drown New York City | Vanity Fair”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zK6Grhp5Zk

More than 11,000 scientists declare a Global Climate Emergency November 5, 2019:
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-monumental-alliance-of-world-scientists-declare-a-climate-emergency

One method for dealing with human-migration caused by the human-caused Climate Emergency would be to genuinely DO something about the Climate Emergency (rather than hoodwinking people by paying “lip-service” to doing something); genuine-action for example by:
re-forestation,
sanctions on countries that deforest and which fail to re-forest,
obtaining an increasing proportion of electricity from solar cells,
using hydrogen-technology vehicles,
putting the same kind of money into action on the Climate Emergency as governments suddenly found they do have available, for stimulating their corona-virus-hit economies.

Meanwhile a second method of dealing with human-migration could be an empathy system, whereby each migrant is considered by a filtering-process to confirm they, for example:
are genuinely from an area which cannot sustain the necessaries of family life,
are not criminals / terrorists,
not carrying any significant contagious disease,
would qualify as asylum-seekers (thus also excluding any country where they could be in danger),
that they are not seeking to migrate to exchange adequate-economic-conditions, for perceived-economic-improvement.

If they pass that filtering-process then they should be allowed to take advantage of a new international system that would be similar to a system of “insurance” for those countries participating in it. Under such a system all participating-countries would accept a quota of migrants; so no one country would be placed in a perceived undue burden.


I hope this helps.

Robert.

Nobody could have completely, but he certainly wouldn’t have been reckless with peoples lives like Trump. And he’d be hated by American people for doing it too. They’d see it as some kind of communism.