OPERATION BIRD FLU COMING?

The Washington Post reported that RFK Jr was not present for an National Security Council exercise involving a hypothetical avian flu outbreak last week that included other intended members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet. Such exercises are a part of the presidential transition.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/24/rfk-jr-trump-biden-pandemic/

The article also cast cloud upon RFK Jr being nominated

It is not clear that Kennedy has the required support of the necessary 50 senators to be confirmed, with Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) and other Republicans rebuking his views on vaccines. Some GOP lawmakers and conservative leaders have also questioned whether the longtime liberal, who has renounced the Democratic Party, is truly committed to restricting access to abortion and other conservative goals.

The White House defended Kennedy’s absence from the emergency-planning exercise and said there would be opportunities for health officials to do further preparations.

While Trumps team did not set the agenda the fact that he added the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy as a statutory member to the NSC and did not insist RFK Jr who was in town to spare 2 hours to attend the exercise is concerning .

The National Security Council exercise has been a mainstay of previous transitions, intended to clarify roles and responsibilities if a sudden crisis hits. It has been revised over the years after previous administrations struggled to get a handle on threats such as coronavirus and Ebola, with new lessons imparted to incoming officials.

The session is also too large to fit in the White House’s Situation Room, said a former senior administration official with knowledge of its planning. Instead, about 40 top officials from the outgoing and incoming administrations attended the exercise on the third floor of the EEOB last Wednesday, with several dozen deputies watching virtually from an overflow room down the hall.

Biden officials also revamped the presentation to make it more interactive, particularly after previous sessions — which were more didactic — struggled to engage some attendees. Wilbur Ross, Trump’s pick to serve as commerce secretary, reportedly dozed off eight years ago as outgoing Obama officials tried to warn Trump’s incoming team about threats such as pandemic flu.

As Biden officials prepared for this year’s exercise, they winnowed down four potential scenarios to just two ripped from the headlines: the threat of a terrorist attack in New Orleans, like the one earlier this month that killed 14 people and injured dozens more in the French Quarter, and the prospect of avian flu spreading rapidly among humans. Avian flu is currently ravaging U.S. poultry farms, and health officials this month reported the first death in the United States linked to the virus.

Liz Sherwood-Randall, Biden’s homeland security adviser, led the session. Top health officials such as Mandy Cohen, the outgoing director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dawn O’Connell, the head of HHS’s emergency response division, virtually presented on the current situation around avian flu and how the Biden administration had invested in surveillance and vaccines to protect against it.

In the room, Paul Friedrichs, who led the Biden White House’s pandemic preparedness office, held up a revised pandemic playbook as a visual aid.

Given the fact that Trump has announced our withdrawal from WHO, which does not take effect until next year, they would want to execute a Pandemic before leaving WHO so they can have input on Global measures using emergency funding as leverage.

It’s also interesting that Trump had a nice 3 hour dinner conversation with Bill Gates earlier this month.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-gates-reveals-what-discussed-with-trump-during-recent-private-meeting_n_678ab46ae4b0eb656c9b060e/amp

Of course, all of this could mean nothing.

Catastrophic contagion Exercise in 2022 (Event 202?)

Targeting young people

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/exercises/2022-catastrophic-contagion/

Bill and Melinda discussing the next pandemic which will “get our attention”

https://pete843.substack.com/p/the-next-pandemic

The following post might also be of interest. The partner with USDA for H5N1 research created Dolly and its Director has an interest in cultivated beef so coincidentally H5N1 has suddenly mutated to infect cattle.

https://pete843.substack.com/p/operation-bird-flu-cultivated-meat

It seems that “H5N1 viruses are becoming more evolutionarily flexible and adapting to mammals in new ways,” the study’s authors write, which “could have global consequences for wildlife, humans, and/or livestock.”

It’s important to understand that this panzootic “is a man-made problem,” says Vincent Munster, who heads the Virus Ecology Section at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/how-bird-flu-affecting-animal-populations

Yes, the MUNSTER would know all about Man Made Viruses

Now they tell us how it can transmit easier in humans

A single modification in the protein found on the surface of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 influenza virus currently circulating in U.S. dairy cows could allow for easier transmission among humans, according to new research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published today in the journal Science.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/single-mutation-h5n1-influenza-surface-protein-could-enable-easier-human-infection

Gee, Ralph could do that in his sleep.

Seems they learned their lesson from COVID. They took their time with a graduated evolution of the novel H5N1 strain of clade 2.3.4.4b in October 2020 so it can be easier to claim Natural Origin. Smart.

Dont worry folks. Moderna is on it.

Days before President Donald Trump took office a second time, the Department of Health and Human Services granted Moderna $590 million for the development of mRNA vaccines for bird flu and other influenza viruses.

This latest financial support comes on top of the $176 million BARDA gave Moderna last summer.

Though person-to-person spread hasn’t yet been detected, H5N1 has infected 67 people in 10 states, including a death in Louisiana. That’s in addition to infection in more than 136 million poultry, nearly 11,000 wild birds, and over 900 dairy herds as of mid-January

Last year, Moderna completed a Phase I/II clinical trial of an investigational influenza vaccine called mRNA-1018, which was tested against H5 and H7 bird flu subtypes. The company said in a Jan. 17 news release that the early-stage trial produced “positive preliminary data” that would be shared at an unspecified “upcoming scientific meeting.” A Phase III trial for mRNA-1018 is planned

https://fortune.com/well/article/bird-flu-vaccine-moderna-mrna-pandemic-influenza-immunization/

RFK Jr if nominated will be able to slap the MAHA label on the new vaccine and assure vaccine skeptics that the Vaccine is Safe and Effective for real this time. Really.

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