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Okay. So let's just take a little time machine. Go back to December, 2019.The world was worried about a Influenza pandemic, not a coronavirus pandemic. Influenza's always been at the top of the list of worries for virologists, immunologists, public health people. It has created mayhem in the world many times before. So that's always been the biggest worry. And all of the human pandemics with flu that have occurred, appear to have jumped from avian to humans.
"One of the cons is, it's theoretically possible that if you vaccinate a flock, a virus will get in and you won't know it. And there will be silent transmissions. Now, if you're doing good surveillance, that wouldn't happen. But there's a kind of a tradition of looking for a sick dead bird and then saying, oh, let's test the bird. Oh look, we've had the virus. This would challenge that system.
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