Hillary Clinton mistakenly says SARS epidemic, not swine flu, happened when she was secretary of state

Published March 9, 2020 12:56pm ET



Hillary Clinton misspoke while defending the Obama administration against criticism from President Trump, who claimed that his predecessor made it harder to quickly enact widespread testing for coronavirus.

Trump said in an interview last week that the Obama administration “didn’t do anything” as cases of swine flu increased in 2009 and 2010.

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