Why does it seem like the CDC is missing from the picture? They were late to the party on COVID, and they seem to be disinterested in bird flu. Do we need a pandemic response agency?
I have a friend who was on the task force and quit because the White House kept calling them in on weekends to discuss news like this, even though it wasn't an emergency. This was 2-3 years ago.
Also from the article:
> Russo says she is heartened that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has “really started to mobilize and do the right thing,” including linking with state and local health departments, as well as vets, to monitor the health of workers on affected farms.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/spotlights/2023-2024/avian-...
Are they really? There's economic incentives against it - the farm owners won't want to know that their herd has bird flu, and the farmworkers, a good chunk of whom are illegal, don't want to know either. And now suddenly, the same government that studiously looked aside wants to count what doesn't want to be counted?