LOL! I have a friend who works for a uni close to and works with NIH. The whole everything is about grant money. Forget any science it is all grant money. CDC and NIH are probably run like the Post Office.
This may get bad fairly quickly. Biden blurted this out months ago. I wish I had more ammo.
I don't know that I understand why certain flues are worse than others. If someone is in general good health when they contract this flu virus, it appears the symptoms are really no different than any other flu virus.