Posted on 06/24/2024 9:00:30 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
It’s been nearly three months since the U.S. government announced an outbreak of the bird flu virus on dairy farms. The World Health Organization considers the virus a public health concern because of its potential to cause a pandemic, yet the U.S. has tested only about 45 people across the country.
“We’re flying blind,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health. With so few tests run, she said, it’s impossible to know how many farmworkers have been infected, or how serious the disease is. A lack of testing means the country might not notice if the virus begins to spread between people — the gateway to another pandemic.
“We’d like to be doing more testing. There’s no doubt about that,” said Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s bird flu test is the only one the Food and Drug Administration has authorized for use right now.
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Were we doing so in 2014-15 and 2022, when we had previous Avian flu outbreaks?
How exactly do you expect them to make an election-interfering crisis out of something that transmits to humans, or from human to human, so rarely and inconsequentially?
Again, Covid was it’s own situation. You were apparently so affected by it that you see it behind every tree, now.
Yup...it’s time for us to hide under our beds again. Mail in balloting for everyone...nationwide!
To the criminal cdc and other criminal “experts”: “Go to Hell”
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