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Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋@SharylAttkisson · Sep 6, 2026

As I reported for CBS News in October 2009, the CDC quit testing for swine flu (H1N1) at a time when it was claiming…

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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.

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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 the "cases" weren't actually swine flu. In fact, they weren't flu at all. See my attached chart. In ordering a halt to tests, CDC instructed health officials to 'presume' any respiratory case was swine flu. This artificially and vastly inflated the number of cases. This kept the momentum to develop the emergency swine flu vaccine on a fast track-- that wasn't needed. It's almost as if it were a run through for a Covid scenario. I was tipped to all of this by insiders. I had to FOI all 50 state's data to prove it when CDC refused to provide it to me on a timely basis. Only after I broke this swine flu news did other media and "studies" acknowledge the lack of swine flu after all the hype. Links in thread.

    Ian Miller@ianmSC · Sep 5, 2026

    Robert Redfield says the CDC stopped tracking data on vaccinated people getting COVID because they didn’t want people to see it and realize they weren’t stopping infection and transmission All while supporting vaccine passports they knew wouldn’t work

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    Link to my swine flu investigation: cbsnews.com/news/swine-flu…

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    ABC following my reporting two months later after a Harvard study acknowledged no giant swine flu epidemic after all-- though they still didn't have the whole story. abcnews.com/Health/SwineFl…