MedPage Today March 2, 2025
— Effective communication across all levels of government is as important as a vaccine
Dear Gerald Parker, DVM, PhD (Pandemic Czar),
The threat of a widespread human outbreak of bird flu is on the horizon. And, with it, the potential for a pandemic. The next pandemic — whether from the H5N1 strain circulating since 2022 or something else — may not be preventable, but its worst impacts are avoidable. Minimizing harm depends not just on pharmaceutical innovations like rapid testing and vaccines, but also on having a public willing to deem these innovations as “worth it.opens in a new tab or window“
Rather than just passively watching and worryingopens in a new tab or window, we need to be ready...
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