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[throwaway5752]

What is the executive branch of the government doing about H5N1 currently? I have not seen any press releases or statements about it.

edit: I'm not being facetious, and don't welcome flippant replies. I'm genuinely interested, since I haven't seen any updates and have well-founded reasons to be skeptical this is getting the necessary attention.

[llamaimperative → throwaway5752]

They're preventing public health agencies from talking about it (or anything else), so if you haven't heard anything: mission accomplished!

[Fomite → throwaway5752]

You have seen a lot of press releases about what they're doing about it.

Muzzling the CDC, gutting infectious disease research, and dismantling USAID (which does some disease work abroad).

[dpkirchner → throwaway5752]

He was elected to explicitly not do anything about H5N1 and all other would-be government priorities.

[Aaronstotle → throwaway5752]

Nothing, same guy who said Covid would be over by Easter a month after the first lockdowns.

[manfre → throwaway5752]

They're following the plan where if you don't track any data, there is no problem. The head in the sand strategy.

[pstuart → throwaway5752]

Look to how they handled covid as a guide for how they manage future outbreaks.

[AuryGlenz → throwaway5752]

What, exactly, should they do? At this point it's pretty much just on the producers to protect their flocks.

[llamaimperative → AuryGlenz]

One smart thing would be: don't actively disrupt -- and perhaps even accelerate -- clinical trials for H5N1 vaccines.

But uh... I don't see that happening.

[AuryGlenz → llamaimperative]

We already have vaccines (some countries use them) and I've seen no evidence that the investigations into newer vaccines have been hampered in any way.