Michael Ejercito wrote:

>https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1e8u798/has_the_next_pandemic_already_started/
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>Has the next pandemic already started?
>New cases of avian flu are raising alarm of a possible new pandemic. The
>world urgently needs to prepare.
>
>Ayoade Alakija
>Ayoade Alakija
>Special Envoy for the Access to COVID19 Tools Accelerator
>Published On 21 Jul 2024
>21 Jul 2024
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>FILE PHOTO: A person holds a test tube labelled "Bird Flu", in this
>picture illustration, January 14, 2023. REUTERS/Dado
>Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
>The United States has registered 10 cases of bird flu since April 2024
>[File: Reuters/Dado Ruvic]
>In mid-July, the US state of Colorado reported six cases of avian flu –
>or H5N1 – in samples taken from poultry workers. This brought the
>national total to 10 cases confirmed by the US Centers for Disease
>Control and Prevention (CDC) since April 2024.
>
>The United States government has upped zoonotic/animal testing, and is
>now discovering more cases of infection with the virus in cows and other
>mammals. So far, it has reported H5N1 in more than 160 herds of cows.
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>The growing number of cases comes amid growing concern about the spread
>of the virus, with a recent study published in the journal Nature
>suggesting that the H5N1 found in cows may be more adaptable to humans.
>
>In response to this situation, the US government recently awarded a
>$176m project to Moderna to support clinical trials for an mRNA vaccine
>against the virus. Other countries are also becoming alert about these
>developments, with Finland launching a vaccination drive aimed at
>safeguarding the most at-risk communities from the disease.
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>The increasingly frequent reports of new cases have caused some experts
>to suggest that another pandemic situation may be on the horizon. While
>that is by far not a certainty, we should still be prepared for it. Yet
>the world’s readiness to respond to such health threats still appears
>fragmented and inequitable. It should be worrying to us all that we
>still do not have adequate tools for early detection and containment.
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>What we know so far is that H5N1 is a fast-moving, rapidly evolving
>virus that can cause severe illness and death. However, the lack of
>diagnostic testing and genetic sequencing for humans and animals
>obscures our understanding of how the virus is mutating and if there are
>any potential mutations that may increase the likelihood of
>human-to-human transmission. The lack of focus on surveillance and
>investment in diagnostics is irresponsible.
>
>It is crucial to avoid repeating mistakes from the COVID-19 pandemic,
>especially when dealing with H5N1, where the risks could be even greater
>due to its high mortality rate. Over the past 20 years, fatal outcomes
>have been reported in about 50 percent of known cases.
>
>It is likely that infections have been under-reported and
>under-diagnosed due to limited testing capacity and so the mortality
>rate may be lower. Furthermore, this rate would not necessarily be
>replicated if the virus established itself in the human population.
>Still, there is a risk that a H5N1 pandemic may be significantly
>different from the COVID-19 one – and deadlier.
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>The bad news is that at present, there are currently no commercially
>available diagnostic tests to detect H5N1 specifically. Nucleic
>acid-based (molecular) tests are the current gold standard for the
>detection of influenza viruses, but they generally require lab
>infrastructure to support their use. And even when such infrastructure
>is available, it may not function fast enough. For example, when a sick
>Australian girl was tested for bird flu in March, it took several weeks
>to get the positive result back.
>
>As seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, rapid tests that can provide a
>result in around 10-15 minutes are a critical tool for outbreak
>containment – even if they are less sensitive than molecular tests.
>Investing in research and development that leads to quick, affordable
>tests for H5N1 influenza can lay the foundation for preparedness.
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>Tests should be made available worldwide – including in low- and
>middle-income countries – and prioritised in populations where there is
>a likelihood of human exposure to the virus, like farms or veterinary
>clinics.
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>Scaling up the monitoring of bird and animal populations, training
>personnel effectively, streamlining reporting mechanisms and utilising
>cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence for speedy
>analysis should all be priorities for governments. There also need to be
>incentives to encourage at-risk populations, currently those working
>with animals that are potentially sick, to test.
>
>Effective ongoing collaboration on developing and sharing treatments and
>vaccines is equally essential. Partnerships, like the Access to COVID-19
>Tools Accelerator – which includes health leaders from the World Health
>Organization; the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND);
>Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness
>Innovations (CEPI) – should be used to encourage governments and
>pharmaceutical groups to ensure the production of at-scale health
>countermeasures and that they are available to all countries.
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>This is not charity, it is investing in global public health to ensure
>we are all protected. No country can stop a pandemic by itself.
>
>More than a million lives may have been lost during COVID-19 because of
>inequity. We need to make sure this does not happen again. There needs
>to be a focus on helping low- and middle-income countries gain access to
>all the countermeasures needed to tackle the next pandemic.
>
>Action is needed now, while human-to-human transmission has still not
>been detected, so that if and when it is, a rapid coordinated global
>response to H5N1 can be deployed.
>
>The new cases in Colorado do not suggest the world is about to end, but
>are a signal worth heeding. While the US and other Western countries are
>able to take measures, poorer countries that do not have the resources
>or access to technology cannot.
>
>This unequal situation not only threatens national health security but
>also hinders the world’s ability to prevent an H5N1 pandemic if it is to
>emerge. Global leaders must acknowledge the interconnectedness of health
>systems and commit to distributing resources fairly.
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>If H5N1 starts spreading from human to human and we are not prepared for
>it, we will pay an unimaginable heavy price in terms of human lives and
>livelihoods.

In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).

Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
longer effective.

Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.

So how are you ?