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Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋
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As I reported for CBS News in October 2009, the CDC quit testing for swine flu (H1N1) at a time when it was claiming an epidemic but knew (through initial state lab tests) that the vast majority of th...
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A CBS News journalist reports that in 2009, the CDC stopped testing for H1N1 swine flu while claiming an epidemic, instructing officials to presume respiratory cases were swine flu without confirmation, artificially inflating case numbers to maintain momentum for vaccine development. The reporter obtained data from all 50 states through FOIA when the CDC refused timely disclosure, revealing most suspected cases weren't actually swine flu, which later independent studies confirmed.
Sep 6, 2026
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