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Trump taps Gerald Parker to be new head of pandemic office as bird flu threat grows
CBS ^ | 02/06/2025 | Alexander Tin

Posted on 02/06/2025 11:57:39 AM PST by Vendome

President Trump has selected Gerald Parker, a veterinarian and former top-ranking federal health official, to head the White House's pandemic office, two U.S. officials tell CBS News.

Congress created the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy after the COVID-19 pandemic.

As part of one of the lessons learned from the outbreak, the office was intended to formalize the so-called czar roles that had led efforts across the federal government to prepare and respond to pandemic threats.

Parker was previously the associate dean for Global One Health at Texas A&M University. "One Health" refers to the study of how health threats in animals and the environment are closely linked to human health concerns, including how dangerous viruses and bacteria often emerge in animals before spreading to humans.

"I've not been a fan of every choice that Donald Trump has made. And I've been very critical of many of them. This one is a very good choice," said Dr. Ashish Jha, former White House COVID-19 response coordinator under President Biden.

In recent months, variants of the virus have decimated the poultry and dairy industries, driven up egg prices and led to concerns about spillovers into humans, including one death in Louisiana.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ashishjha; geraldparker; pandemic; scare; stop; strategy; virus; whpandemicoffice
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ADVANCED NATION USA HAS MAJOR PROBLEM BIRD FLU?... BUT MEXICO DOES NOT?? HMMM??? .

" The avian influenza high-pathogenicity virus was eradicated in poultry of Mexico in a relatively short period by the use of inactivated emulsified vaccine, enforcing biosecurity, and controlling movement of poultry and poultry products. " https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14575101/#:~:text=Abstract,and%20the%20use%20of%20vaccines.

1 posted on 02/06/2025 11:57:39 AM PST by Vendome
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Gerald Parker Bird flu vaccine candidates already exist. But if H5N1 sparks a pandemic, making enough doses won't be easy | CBC News https://t.co/bt7GHQNPTN
2 posted on 02/06/2025 12:00:50 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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There are birds all over the place. We live on 8 acres and I see probably 100 per day. If there is a “bird flu” my guess is it’s because chickens are treated horribly at commercially processed plants. There are videos that I won’t watch because I don’t want nightmares. I won’t even describe the horrors. We get eggs from a farm. $3/dozen. So good.


3 posted on 02/06/2025 12:02:29 PM PST by Mercat
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Trump is TEMPORARY.

just because he might not make the vaxxes MANDATORY, the next guy will.

since they are making an office for pandemics they are expecting or PLANNING future plandemics.

That’s what i see.

Expect MORE manmade biological weapons to be released.
they didn’t make them to NOT USE THEM.


4 posted on 02/06/2025 12:02:33 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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This message brought to you by Big Pharma’s subsidiary—CBS.

Lol.


5 posted on 02/06/2025 12:04:01 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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Mexico does not have the advanced bio-(weapons)lab that we have, such as the USDA lab in Georgia where the H5N1 was traced to have come out of.


6 posted on 02/06/2025 12:10:40 PM PST by Cold Heart (Democrat party is indefensibly evil)
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he might not make the vaxxes MANDATORY, the next guy will.

Not J D
7 posted on 02/06/2025 12:11:39 PM PST by BigEdLB (Adults are in charge )
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I agree. The problem is how they conduct the egg business. Battery eggs need to be outlawed. We stopped buying them years ago.


8 posted on 02/06/2025 12:12:09 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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correct


9 posted on 02/06/2025 12:12:47 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Why are they culling cows, when the mortality rate is so low - something like 2%?


10 posted on 02/06/2025 12:14:59 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Aw, sheesh.

Let RFKJ get into office and let HIM appoint someone, if need be, to oversee a ScamDEMic office.


11 posted on 02/06/2025 12:17:04 PM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!l)
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Trying to push the radical “green” agenda: Eat more bugs, eat less meat.


12 posted on 02/06/2025 12:18:58 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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It is bureaucratic idiocy to do mass panic kills of animals. It is taking a shotgun to a gnat.


13 posted on 02/06/2025 12:24:51 PM PST by lurk (u)
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Good question. I don’t find dead birds very often at all.


14 posted on 02/06/2025 12:27:01 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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We used to have pandemics once a century. Now we have 3 a year.

Maybe we should stop funding bio-weapon, sorry, gain of function labs.

15 posted on 02/06/2025 12:31:11 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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I HAVE BETWEEN 0 & 300+++ starlings every day, waiting for the horse water tanks to be opened up.

AFTER the wind blows, the QUAIL come & pick at what may have been exposed.


16 posted on 02/06/2025 12:35:03 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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Those horrible commercial plants, at least for egg layers are becoming less and less as more states require the hens to be free range. Lets not get into commercial broiler poultry practices.


17 posted on 02/06/2025 12:37:27 PM PST by Mastador1
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I don’t think H5N1 has been detected in meat cattle; just dairy cows.


18 posted on 02/06/2025 12:46:17 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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This fear porn brought to you by Pfizer.


19 posted on 02/06/2025 12:47:01 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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I hope they’re not landing a whole-of-government response.


20 posted on 02/06/2025 12:49:02 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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