Thanks for the unexpected update…appreciate your devotion to the health and safety of the American people. The article from Foreign Affairs is spot on…
Thank you! It feels like epidemiologists are standing on a chair amidst a crowd of people, yelling at the top of their voices and banging on a drum, but noone seems to notice. Such is the human capacity for denial. How do we convince decision makers, who mostly have no training in health care science, that it would be far better to be proactive rather than reactive to prevent the loss of human lives? Is it possible to create a cost/benefit analysis that would be compelling enough to move them? Or would it be possible to present it directly to the Anerican people, such that we the people would demand that action be taken on both state and federal levels? I wonder how many Americans are at all aware that H5N1 could wipe out their beloved pet cats, to say nothing of the fact that it’s one mutation away from being able to infect us?! What is it about human nature - or the human brain? - that makes us so resistant to acting in our own interests?
Better hope that one does not mutate enough to cause another epidemic, although there would likely be a vaccine available quickly for those wise enough to get one, especially if it is not an mRNA vaccine.
Thanks for the unexpected update…appreciate your devotion to the health and safety of the American people. The article from Foreign Affairs is spot on…
Thank you! It feels like epidemiologists are standing on a chair amidst a crowd of people, yelling at the top of their voices and banging on a drum, but noone seems to notice. Such is the human capacity for denial. How do we convince decision makers, who mostly have no training in health care science, that it would be far better to be proactive rather than reactive to prevent the loss of human lives? Is it possible to create a cost/benefit analysis that would be compelling enough to move them? Or would it be possible to present it directly to the Anerican people, such that we the people would demand that action be taken on both state and federal levels? I wonder how many Americans are at all aware that H5N1 could wipe out their beloved pet cats, to say nothing of the fact that it’s one mutation away from being able to infect us?! What is it about human nature - or the human brain? - that makes us so resistant to acting in our own interests?
I so appreciate this update. I hope you and yours are enjoying a restful & restorative holiday season. Thank you for all that you do!
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I feel like the cold weather fights it and the warmer weather incubates it.
https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html
Better hope that one does not mutate enough to cause another epidemic, although there would likely be a vaccine available quickly for those wise enough to get one, especially if it is not an mRNA vaccine.
Hi Caitlin, in Italy we are measuring weird numbers, between 1.5x and 2x smaller incidence than last ILI season: https://influcast.org/page/it/insight/
Do you think we are slowly going back to pre-pandemic numbers or there is something else?