Trump said that the White House had issued an apology for Joe Biden’s remarks and it took 6 months for President Obama to declare a National Emergency that killed 12,000 Americans in 2008 during the Swine Flu outbreak.

The White House Briefing, President's Proclamation and an estimate by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention supports the claim.

The White House Briefing, President's Proclamation and an estimate by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention supports the claim.Biden's comment on the Swine Flu, "When one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft'' were met with backlash for which White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs issued a statement and apologised on behalf of Joe Biden.

During the pandemic, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention provided estimates from 12 April 2009, to 10 April 2010, where 12,469 deaths occurred in the United States due to H1N1. As a result of the epidemic, the U.S Secretary of Health and Human Services first declared a public health emergency on April 26, 2009, and President Barack Obama upped that to a national emergency in late October of 2009.

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