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What is the executive branch of the government doing about H5N1 currently? I have not seen any press releases or statements about it. edit: I'm not being facet
by throwaway5752 2y ago
What is the executive branch of the government doing about H5N1 currently? I have not seen any press releases or statements about it.
edit: I'm not being facetious, and don't welcome flippant replies. I'm genuinely interested, since I haven't seen any updates and have well-founded reasons to be skeptical this is getting the necessary attention.
- pstuart 2y agoLook to how they handled covid as a guide for how they manage future outbreaks.
- llamaimperative 2y agoThey're preventing public health agencies from talking about it (or anything else), so if you haven't heard anything: mission accomplished!
- Aaronstotle 2y agoNothing, same guy who said Covid would be over by Easter a month after the first lockdowns.
- Auracle 2y agoWhat, exactly, should they do? At this point it's pretty much just on the producers to protect their flocks.
- llamaimperative 2y agoOne smart thing would be: don't actively disrupt -- and perhaps even accelerate -- clinical trials for H5N1 vaccines. But uh... I don't see that happening.
- Auracle 2y agoWe already have vaccines (some countries use them) and I've seen no evidence that the investigations into newer vaccines have been hampered in any way.
- dpkirchner 2y agoHe was elected to explicitly not do anything about H5N1 and all other would-be government priorities.
- manfre 2y agoThey're following the plan where if you don't track any data, there is no problem. The head in the sand strategy.
- Fomite 2y agoYou have seen a lot of press releases about what they're doing about it. Muzzling the CDC, gutting infectious disease research, and dismantling USAID (which does some disease work abroad).