Health officials are making a renewed call for vigilance against bird flu, but some experts are puzzling over why reports of new human cases have stopped.
Has the search for cases been weakened by government cuts? Are immigrant farm workers, who have accounted for many of the U.S. cases, more afraid to come forward for testing amid the Trump administration’s deportation push? Is it just a natural ebb in infections?
“We just don’t know why there haven’t been cases,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University. “I think we should assume there are infections that are occurring in farmworkers that just aren’t being detected.”
At least we successfully prevented the justice department from having the appearance of pursuing partisan goals. That would have been the worst possible outcome.
Lol, the fact that people would consider it partisan to prosecute someone leading an attempt to violently change the results of an election in essentially a coup attempt is a great reminder of how fucked we truly are.