Bird Flu Is Spreading. Why Aren't More People Getting Tested?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/health/bird-flu-tests.html

by bookofjoe • 2 years ago

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bookofjoe• 2 years ago

https://archive.ph/QtzxV

warrenm• 2 years ago

Personally, I think a lot of people are in "test fatigue"

And that is whether or not they think Covid was planned, leaked, or totally random

Relatively high false-positive rates[0] with the PCR test for Covid, imo, factor into that

That, and not wanting to get stuck in some kind of lockdowns again (the negative benefits of which are still being discussed and debated) ... especially for something which, odds are, you have practically no chance of being exposed to ... and most people are going to say, "why test?"

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[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7934325/#:~:tex....

wkat42423• 2 years ago

And also because we're not really going to get very sick from it.

The biggest downside experienced is by the poultry industry which is squarely to blame for this anyway with their high density farming. So screw them.

rsynnott2• 2 years ago

And also because we're not really going to get very sick from it.

I mean, the death rate from human cases of H5N1 is about _50%_ (this is likely an overestimate, as mild cases are unlikely to be detected, but it is _not great_). The upside is that, thus far, it doesn't seem to be spreading human->human in significant numbers (though that has happened at least once). The risk, of course, is that human->human spread becomes easier, as it has with various other flu strains and SARS-COV1/2.

The worst case is very, very bad, worse than the 1918 H1N1 pandemic.

brodouevencode• 2 years ago

Who is dying from bird flu? What are the symptoms? What are the lasting effects?

ksaj• 2 years ago

I don't think Canada even has testing for it. If you get symptoms of Covid (which are pretty similar) you're expected to just stay home a couple of days, and then return to work with a mask. So we've done a complete 180 in testing for these kinds of things.

I just ran a search on SARS in Canada, and only 2003 comes up. Ironically also a Lancet article about Covid - what we learned from SARS. Today the author would be surprised.

wkat42423• 2 years ago

It's also because we can't really do much more. Covid is everywhere now. We just have to live with it and any measures were take will only delay exposure while coming at big inconvenience and cost. There's just no point anymore. After wasting years of useful lifetime in covid lockdowns, who wants to deal with more for negligible benefits?

bediger4000• 2 years ago

If it isn't tested for, implementing mitigations is a matter of argument instead of data motivated.

cosmin800• 2 years ago

Alright!!! Let the money flow.

hulitu• 2 years ago

Bird Flu Is Spreading. Why Aren't More People Getting Tested?

Where ? In the propaganda outlets ?

Corruption works so well.

Bird Flu Is Spreading. Why Aren't More People Getting Tested?

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