#osterholm — Public Fediverse posts

@BruceMirken #CIDRAP is a great resource, though I mostly only listen to their every two week podcast with Dr. #osterholm

We ‘have our head in the sand’: Health experts warn #US isn’t reacting fast enough to #threat of #birdflu, https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/27/health/cdc-bird-flu-virus-mutations-analysis/index.html

(...) That the #H5N1 virus has already spread so rapidly among #cattle, though, suggests “#USDA has basically dropped the ball, big-time,” said Dr. Michael #Osterholm, director of the #CIDRAP at the University of #Minnesota, in an interview with CNN Friday. “I think it was out of fear to protect industry. And they thought it was going to burn out, and it didn’t.”