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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.

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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