U.S. Pandemic News for Americans to Ignore

Of course you'll shrug this all off as a hoax, but read it anyway.

1. From NBC News: "The CDC is preparing for a winter with '3 bugs out there': Covid, flu and RSV; Vaccine fatigue is already here, although many Americans will be urged to get three different shots this fall."

I remember how horrific last Fall was, sitting in the ER waiting room and watching as coughing, very sick, maskless adults and children came in a steady stream. I'd rather not see that again any time soon.

2.  From USA Today: "The next pandemic could spring from the US meat supply, new report finds"

"The next global pandemic could come from the United States.

"That's the sobering message of a report from Harvard Law School and New York University, examining how humans, livestock and wild animals interact here.

"Many familiar ‒ and terrifying diseases ‒ originated in animals, including HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Zika, pandemic flu and COVID-19. Some started in other countries, typically on the African or Asian continents. These so-called zoonotic diseases are often blamed on poor hygiene, lack of government oversight or unsafe practices in those places.

"While Americans often think 'it couldn't happen here,' regulations are so loose and interactions so frequent, researchers found, that a virus or another contagious bug could easily jump from animals to people in the U.S., sparking a deadly outbreak."

So maybe instead of a tripledemic, we will have a quadrupledemic. Stay tuned.