They are winding up fear over the Bird Flu. Since first emerging in 1996, the H5N1 avian influenza virus had previously been confined to mostly seasonal outbreaks. But "something happened" in mid-2021 that made the group of viruses much more infectious, according to Richard Webby, the head of a World Health Organization collaborating centre studying influenza in animals. Since then, outbreaks have lasted all year round, spreading to new areas and leading to mass deaths among wild birds and tens of millions of poultry being culled. Webby, who is a researcher at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in the US city of Memphis, told AFP it was "absolutely" the largest outbreak of avian influenza the world had seen. Yahoo article Let's see...this is June 2023, the election is November 2024...
I guess if Trump, DeSantis or whoever gets elected, there will have to be a catastrophe to shut down the economy.
Updated COVID-19 Vaccines Needed Due to Waning Effectiveness: FDA Newly formulated COVID-19 vaccines are necessary because the performance of the current slate is slipping over time, U.S. officials said this week. “There appears to be an inverse relationship between the time since vaccination and vaccine effectiveness, such that bivalent COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against Omicron sublineages appears to wane over time,” Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials said. This has been a public service announcement.
We just got an email from a retired teacher in Georgia who was severely ill in bed with a fever--tested positive for Covid. She had gotten the original vax and 4 boosters but still got very sick from the virus. I heard the Chinese have now released the person responsible for the Covid pandemic. He was the first person to die from the virus. Coincidence?