(MIT Technology Review) – Five years on from the start of the covid pandemic, are we ready for a potential avian influenza outbreak?

Scientists are increasingly concerned about a potential bird flu pandemic. The question is, given all the enduring uncertainty around the virus, what should we be doing now to prepare for the possibility? Can stockpiled vaccines save us? And, importantly, have we learned any lessons from a covid pandemic that still hasn’t entirely fizzled out?

Part of the challenge here is that it is impossible to predict how H5N1 will evolve. (Read More)