Tufekci: Bird flu pandemic would be one of history's most foreseeable catastrophes
Briefly

"Almost five years after COVID blew into our lives, the main thing standing between us and the next global pandemic is luck."
"The H5N1 avian flu, having mutated its way across species, is raging out of control among the nation's cattle, infecting roughly a third of the dairy herds in California alone."
"As the colder weather drives us all indoors to our poorly ventilated houses and workplaces, we will be undertaking an extraordinary gamble that the nation is in no way prepared for."
"If there is a bird flu pandemic soon, it will be among the most foreseeable catastrophes in history."
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