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H5N1
Apr 25, 2024 12:59:28 GMT
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Post by lcjjdnh on Apr 25, 2024 12:59:28 GMT
Should we be worried?
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Post by Ridiculously Dull Bobby on Apr 25, 2024 13:15:16 GMT
Can’t read the article right now, but H5N1 has had the potential to be catastrophic for decades.
The saving grace is it doesn’t spread easily among humans. But it is much more severe than the seasonal virus or the H1N1.
Flu vaccines still work, though, and a monovalent H5N1 vaccine would be pretty quick and easy to develop.
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H5N1
Apr 25, 2024 13:19:04 GMT
Post by doctorquant on Apr 25, 2024 13:19:04 GMT
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H5N1
Apr 25, 2024 13:31:47 GMT
Post by TheSportsPredictor on Apr 25, 2024 13:31:47 GMT
Doesn't she mean plandemic?
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H5N1
Apr 25, 2024 13:44:20 GMT
Post by elcircogrande on Apr 25, 2024 13:44:20 GMT
All I know is that I'll be damned if the gummint uses this as a pretext to inject more socialism into my veins.
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H5N1
Apr 25, 2024 14:15:11 GMT
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Post by Ridiculously Dull Bobby on Apr 25, 2024 14:15:11 GMT
Yeah, this is more like it. It’s of concern that it now (apparently) spreads easily from birds to specific mammals, but that’s a significant distance away from it sustaining human-to-human transmission at all, let alone at a pandemic rate. It’s worth pointing out that flu is a known quantity, for the most part. Even if a novel strain emerges, it’s still basically the flu. The treatments and preventive measures we have in place are sufficient and remarkably adaptable. I have a hard time believing any flu strain nowadays could cause something like COVID, which was in many ways the worst-case pandemic scenario.
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H5N1
Apr 25, 2024 14:17:42 GMT
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Post by Ridiculously Dull Bobby on Apr 25, 2024 14:17:42 GMT
I’d also point out that the biggest threat from this will likely be the culling of all infected wildlife.
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H5N1
Apr 25, 2024 14:30:10 GMT
Post by batman on Apr 25, 2024 14:30:10 GMT
I hear it spreads easily to black swans.
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Post by doctorquant on Apr 25, 2024 15:43:40 GMT
I will note that the twitterer linked at the top of this thread did quite a good job parsing the numbers during the peaks/depths of COVID. That the WAPO columnist's sources have her on the more optimistic side is good, but I'm not interested in blowing off Tufecki, either.
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Post by Ridiculously Dull Bobby on Apr 25, 2024 16:36:23 GMT
I won’t know for sure what to think until I hear what Eric Feigl-Dingus has to say.
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