Health Affairs July 3, 2024
With each new report of a human case of avian influenza, concern grows that the nation is at risk for repeating the surveillance mistakes of COVID-19. Back in 2020, CDC’s delay in making a functional COVID-19 test left the nation in the dark about the scale and nature of the threat for many months. Today, even as avian influenza spreads among thousands of cattle (and numerous other species of mammals), testing of farm workers remains opaque, with limited release of test results. One might be forgiven for experiencing a sense of déjà vu, as surveillance efforts draw criticism from some for being too little and too late, and from others as being overzealous.
“It’s overreach. …They need to back off,”...
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