Maybe we can develop a beautiful vaccine or three for it at warp speed and flatten the curve? /s
‘This could be 100 times worse than Covid’
I still remember the hysteria over the Swine Flu during the Carter mis-administration in the 1970s.
More people died of heart attacks while standing in line for the shot than died of the flu.
Fool me once, shame on you...
(From the article):"A bird flu pandemic could be '100 times worse than Covid' and kill up to half of everyone it infects, experts have warned — as the White House says it is 'monitoring' the situation."
"Speaking at a briefing, virus researchers said the H5N1 strain of bird flu may now be getting 'dangerously close' to triggering a pandemic."
"Multiple cases of the infection in a variety of mammals, including cows, cats and, more recently, humans, are all raising the risk of the virus mutating to become more transmissible, they said."
" But others attending the briefing said it was too early to panic because there were still too many unknowns about recent cases to warrant sounding the alarm."
"A White House representative said today it was tracking bird flu in the US, adding: 'We take the health and safety of the American people seriously.' "
"The panel was quickly convened off the heels of news that a dairy farm worker in Texas tested positive for the virus,
alongside 12 herds of cows in six states and three cats also in Texas that subsequently died."
"Testing done on the worker showed the patient's virus had already mutated to spread more easily — although the CDC said this mutation had been recorded before,
that the risk was low and that there was no sign of human-to-human transmission."
Looks like they’ve settled on the next election pandemic.
Same question as last time - which came first, the disease or the vax?