What Happened to the Swine Flu Epidemic?

"The catastrophic consequences of harm done to poor people are still unfolding," he says. "God only knows what the end result of that's going to be." The U.S. government has been accused of mismanaging food and energy supplies in recent years, including by failing to adequately prepare for an economic downturn. In 2009, when swine flu was raging, there were 100 times more infections than cases because some people didn't know they had it.