Former COVID ‘experts’ return to media expecting bird flu pandemic

Despite statements from national health agencies that bird flu (H5N1) remains a low risk to people in general, health officials and pundits from the COVID-19 era have taken to media outlets with alarming messages – pressing the Biden administration for tests and vaccine approvals prior to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

“In the cases identified to date, A(H5N1) viruses generally caused mild illness, mostly conjunctivitis, of short duration, predominantly in U.S. adults exposed to infected animals,” concluded a study published Dec. 31 at the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“Most patients received prompt antiviral treatment,” the CDC paper noted. “No evidence of human-to-human A(H5N1) transmission was identified.”

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a media advisory on the same day that said the highly pathogenic avian flu (HPAI) “remains a low risk to the general public.”

“Fortunately, so far most U.S. cases of HPAI H5N1 have been mild and resolved on their own without the need for treatment,” NIH added.

Harvey Risch, M.D., professor emeritus of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine, told Lumen-News last week that the CDC study “shows that the human bird flu cases that have occurred to date are essentially in people with workplace exposures to infected animals.”

“These cases have generally been mild and treatable,” Risch added. “There has been no secondary spread from them. Thus, the public fearmongering statements various people have been making must have some other motivation or incentive rather than pretending to be informative.”

The Louisiana Department of Health announced Sunday that a man who “was over the age of 65 and was reported to have underlying medical conditions” had died after contracting H5N1 following “exposure to a combination of a non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds.”

Louisiana health officials added that its “extensive public health investigation has identified no additional H5N1 cases nor evidence of person-to-person transmission. This patient remains the only human case of H5N1 in Louisiana.”

CDC observed that 66 cases of bird flu have been reported in the United States to date. The agency also reiterated its position that risk remains low for the general public: 

“Most importantly, no person-to-person transmission spread has been identified. As with the case in Louisiana, most H5 bird flu infections are related to animal-to-human exposures. Additionally, there are no concerning virologic changes actively spreading in wild birds, poultry, or cows that would raise the risk to human health. [CDC reported previously on its analysis of the viruses isolated from the patient in Louisiana.] However, people with job-related or recreational exposures to infected birds or other animals are at greater risk of infection. For these and others, CDC has developed prevention resources about how to protect yourself.” 

Nevertheless, former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield began predicting in June: “We will have a bird flu pandemic.” Appearing on News Nation, Redfield said, “It’s not a question of if; it’s more of a question of when we will have a bird flu pandemic.” 

“Unfortunately, bird flu has, when it does enter humans, has a significant mortality, probably somewhere between 25 and 50% mortality,” he added. “So it’s going to be quite complicated.” 

Dr. Barbara Birx, former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator during the first Trump administration, said more testing is needed to determine if farm workers and animals have contracted bird flu.  

“I flash back to January of 2020, and I’m hearing the same words come out of the CDC, like, ‘low risk, low risk human-to-human transmission,’” Birx told CNN. “Didn’t we hear that from the WHO and the CDC about COVID?”  

“So, if we got the private sector engaged in our response, they would help us get tests out to all of the dairy farms, all the poultry farms, where they could test both the chickens and the people exposed to the chickens, and then we would know how far spread this virus was.” 

In June, however, Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, told Lumen-News that “testing every animal would be colossally expensive.”  

“Who’s to say how many tests are false positives?” Orient asked, adding a huge testing campaign might produce numerous false positives, an outcome that “could be a pretext for slaughtering most of our livestock for no good reason as part of the war on meat – and affordable food.” 

Former Planned Parenthood CEO Leana Wen, M.D., who served as a COVID “expert” for CNN and the Washington Post, asserted in July 2021 that life should become “hard” for Americans who refused the COVID shots: 

Wen told CBS’ Face the Nation in late December that the Biden administration needed to get rapid bird flu tests to Americans and to push through approvals for vaccines before Trump’s inauguration. 

“They could get this authorized now, and also get the vaccine out … to farm workers and to vulnerable people,” Wen urged. “I think that’s the right approach because we don’t know what the Trump administration is going to be doing around bird flu. If they have people coming in with anti-vaccine stances, could they hold up vaccine authorization?” 

A video produced by the McCullough Foundation helps to differentiate the facts about bird flu from the alarming messages, and addresses the unnecessary killing of thousands of chickens – as has already been done in California. 

Influenza expert Dr. Robert Malone called the fearmongering over bird flu another “psyops campaign being conducted by the administrative/deep state, apparently in partnership with Pharma, against the American people.” 

“They know and we know that the ‘vaccines’ being produced will be somewhat ineffective, as all flu ‘vaccines’ are,” Malone wrote at his Substack column Dec. 31. 

“The government is chasing a rapidly evolving RNA virus with a syringe, just like they did with HIV and C-19 … All the while they are getting prepared to roll out masks, lock-downs, quarantines, etc. All the while getting ready to roll out mRNA vaccines for poultry and livestock, as well as for all of us.”