A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History.
Zeynep Tufekci at the New York Times:
The H5N1 avian flu, having mutated its way across species, is raging out of control among the nation’s cattle, infecting roughly a third of the dairy herds in California alone. Farmworkers have so far avoided tragedy, as the virus has not yet acquired the genetic tools to spread among humans. But seasonal flu will vastly increase the chances of that outcome. As the colder weather drives us all indoors to our poorly ventilated houses and workplaces, we will be undertaking an extraordinary gamble that the nation is in no way prepared for.
Biden has failed to take action to defend against H5N1, and Trump wants an anti-vaxxer and advocate of dubious herd immunity pandemic prevention in charge of public health. This is not OK.