I'd consider it just as likely that they did it to justify the fearmongering they did.
It still looks to me like the CDC did too little. They didn’t put forth the energy to close the borders when it might have helped. And then they threw their hands up and said open the schools and let it spread and run it’s course.
Did too little? For a disease that was fatal in 2/100 of 1 percent of the people thay say came down with it?
Yeah, but you have to look at how much improved our nutrition and medical care is from prior epidemics of previous flu. And you have to consider that this flu didn’t pick of the elderly with complications like normal flu does. This one targeted our kids. That makes it worthy of a more robust response.
Mexico didn’t shut down their economy for no reason or because of some evil pact with Obama and the CDC. They shut down because doctors were seeing things that they hadn’t seen before.