pandemic-preparedness
4 stories tagged "pandemic-preparedness"
Infectious Disease
Actors Faked Bird Flu at 69 ERs and Clinics, and Triage Still Asked the 2016 Question
The actor's secret was a sick duck from Central Park, and only 7 of 73 triage desks asked about animals. Ten years after New York's first mystery-patient drills, the front door got slower.
InvestigationsThe Crisis Was Unexpected. The Org Chart Wasn't.
Internal NIH correspondence and the public record both point to a pandemic-response architecture, and the people to run it, assembled years before Covid arrived.
Infectious DiseaseThe Ebola Vaccine We Celebrated Doesn't Touch the Strain Now Burning Through Congo
Congo's Ebola outbreak has passed 1,000 cases and is rising faster than any before it, but it is caused by Bundibugyo virus, against which the licensed Ebola vaccine and antibody drugs were never designed to work.
Infectious DiseaseThe AI Vaccine That 'Passed' Its First Trial Three Years Ago
Cambridge finished the Phase 1 trial in 2023. The press tour arrived in 2026. The paper, when you read it, said the immunogenicity was modest.