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Bird Flu Déjà Vu from the COVID Playbook

Mercola

Those tasked with solving these crises public health officials often fuel them, a tactic rooted in years of "pandemic preparedness" groundwork. As Baker notes, COVID's SARS-CoV-2 emerged from lab manipulation under the guise of pandemic preparedness, leaking in 2019, and bird flu is tracing a parallel path.

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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

To support this critical command and control need, Congress established the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR) in 2023 to coordinate the federal agencies’ domestic response to public health threats that have pandemic potential or that may cause significant disruption. per 10,000 people to 4.1

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Trump Team’s $500 Million Bet on Old Vaccine Technology Puzzles Scientists

KFF Health News

The Trump administration’s unprecedented $500 million grant for a broadly protective flu shot has confounded vaccine and pandemic preparedness experts, who said the project was in early stages, relied on old technology, and was just one of more than 200 such efforts. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Trump team’s $500 million bet on old vaccine technology puzzles scientists

HEALTHBEAT

The Trump administrations unprecedented $500 million grant for a broadly protective flu shot has confounded vaccine and pandemic preparedness experts, who said the project was in early stages, relied on old technology, and was just one of more than 200 such efforts. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Third measles death

Your Local Epidemiologist

An uncoordinated federal response Unlike the 2015 Disneyland outbreak in California or the 2019 outbreak in New York state—where federal, state, and local agencies worked together with clear communication and swift action—this time, it’s unclear what’s happening or who’s in charge.