The Council on Foreign Relations held a webinar with State and local officials about the Avian Flu Outbreak and Preventing the Next Pandemic May 29th 2024.
 
300+ attendees from 47 states and territories listened as Jennifer Nuzzo & Rick Bright discussed the history of Avian flu and its propensity to create the next pandemic.

Bright self-reported that he has studied H5N1 (Avian flu) since the first human cases in 1997 and has studied the virus, working to understand it and develop vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.

NOTE: Rick Bright was the director of BARDA, COVID pandemic response whistleblower and now Senior VP of Rockefeller Foundations Pandemic Prevention and response. (Info from Wikipedia)
 
"Darkest winter in modern history" was a quote from Rick Bright's written testimony as he prepared to testify before Congress in 2020. 

Nuzzo discussed history of the virus but not her personal role in that research.

While both Nuzzo and Bright stated that the virus in humans is mild and ONLY consists of conjunctivitis (eye irritation) at this time, they are concerned about sustained human to human transmission because historically the virus had killed about half of the known 900 cases in Asian countries. 

Currently, eye swabs are being used to declare infection and respiratory specimens are negative. Nuzzo reports that she believes there are many more cases happening across the U.S. and cautions officials "not to assume that it isn't spreading. " She also stated that "we are only finding cases where we are shinning a light."

Both Nuzzo and Bright were insistent that despite the fact that this virus has been noted in humans for 27 years, that there is likely widespread mammalian (cows not birds) infection, and evidence of mild or even asymptomatic cases in humans that we should be prepared for this to be a very severe infection.

The discussion made it clear that a pandemic was imminent and state governments should take action to start providing incentives for testing and PPE for farmers & farm employees.
 
The discussion also included ominous warnings from Bright and Nuzzo about how we are exceptionally prepared for a flu pandemic, but complacency could be disastrous in the face of deadly mutations as human-to-human transmission.

All interested parties should "create strong relationships with high-risk populations" (farmers/migrant workers) in order to ensure quick assessment, treatment, and use of vaccines.
 
The importance of data throughput to federal agencies was stressed as a primary importance to "understand how the virus was spreading" and to stop it before so many people were infected and dying.
 
Early vaccination was stressed as a necessary component to "get ahead of the virus" and widespread human pandemic

Rick Bright suggested use of stockpile doses of H5N1 vaccines on high risk populations, and a second dose from an mRNA vaccine. Both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech have vaccines in clinical trials.

When asked how communities can prepare, Nuzzo stated that children would be at high risk and local governments should be discussing acceptable behaviors in regard to school shutdowns.

Overall, the message was clear that the state and local governments should be increasing testing, discuss vaccines and the willingness of citizens to cooperate and stop the pandemic.

 

 
What is the motivation behind the next pLandemic?
 
Could the "public health experts" be attempting to "disrupt the system" and "make flu sexy"?
 
Could it be that the continued cycle of flu based pLandemics would result in increased resources and funding to ensure that explosion in vaccine technology leading to increased development and widespread acceptance of mRNA vaccines leaving 1940's egg based vaccines in the past?
 
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