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As California Taps Pandemic Stockpile for Bird Flu, Officials Keep Close Eye on Spending

KFF Health News

California is putting a number of lessons from the covid-19 pandemic to use, such as coordinating emergency response with local health officials and tracking infectious diseases through wastewater surveillance , as the state tries to limit the spread of bird flu to humans. California spent $15.6 Republican Gov.

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As California taps pandemic stockpile for bird flu, officials keep close eye on spending

HEALTHBEAT

Amid bird flu, farmworkers tending sick cows with only gloves to protect them California is putting a number of lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic to use, such as coordinating emergency response with local health officials and tracking infectious diseases through wastewater surveillance , as the state tries to limit the spread of bird flu to humans.

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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 bolster these efforts, BCHC urges the federal government to provide sustained funding, flexible resource allocation, and direct support to local health agencies, ensuring preparedness for future public health emergencies.

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Priority Pathogens: The disease families which require urgent scientific research

UK Health Security

Attempts to prioritise pathogens have become even more common since the Covid-19 pandemic, and lists generated by the likes of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) are helping to support the co-ordination of global preparedness efforts.

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How improving air quality in schools would minimize the threat of bird flu spread

HEALTHBEAT

While containment, preparedness, and overall response for national epidemics are inherently federal government responsibilities in the United States, there is one critical intervention that states and large cities should take now: Improve indoor air quality in schools and congregate settings. What should states do now?

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Trump signs order to withdraw U.S. from WHO

The Hill

has historically been the largest funder of the Geneva-based organization, which is a branch of the United Nations responsible for combating global public health emergencies. In his Monday executive order, Trump again criticizes the WHO for its mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic for unfairly asking for onerous payments from the U.S.