[exDemMom]

The good news is that influenza vaccine technology has matured immensely in the past 100 years, such that it only takes a few months to develop, test, and get FDA approval for a vaccine against a new strain of influenza.

It is probably premature at this time to try to push out H5N1 vaccines to the population. That is because RNA viruses, especially influenza viruses, mutate so much that a vaccine produced now might not match at all an H5N1 virus that becomes highly transmissible between humans.

This particular strain of H5N1 has not become transmissible between humans, although there are a couple of cases where the source was not identified. It also does not (so far) have the high lethality of other H5N1 viruses, which is about 60%. And because no one can predict the effect of future mutation on the virus, we have no idea how serious it will be if it makes the changes needed to become a highly transmissible virus.

I will say that while the virus (so far) has mostly not been life-threatening in humans, it is devastating on cats. A wildlife center in Washington state recently lost 20 cats—cougars, bobcats, and a tiger—from H5N1.

There is a reason we continuously monitor influenza. It is the most likely virus to cause a pandemic and we want to be on top of it if another influenza pandemic should arise. Tens of thousands in the US die of seasonal influenza every year; that number could easily reach hundreds of thousands or even millions if another pandemic arises.

Finally, given the sheer quantity of antivax efforts to scare everyone about being protected against disease, we have a sizable fraction of the population that would rather die than get vaccinated. This, of course, would drive the death toll even higher.

[dkGba]

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[cp124]

No.

[JayGalt]

First create a panic about a pseudo emergency that may never occur, use the fear to push an untested possibly ineffective vaccine, make lots of money while the population plays Russian roulette and all you can say is it’s sad that the COVID criminal conspiracy and unethical actions by the Drug Industry, Physicians and FDA has caused people to be wary.

[DSH]

Finally, given the sheer quantity of antivax efforts to scare everyone about being protected against disease, we have a sizable fraction of the population that would rather die than get vaccinated. This, of course, would drive the death toll even higher.

And, see, one we finished rounding up people like Ms. Wen here, we could turn to rounding up shills like you.

You seem surprisingly comfortable in your role.