Dairy farmers, increasingly polarized following the COVID-19 pandemic and worried about economic damages, are hiding likely bird flu cases in cows from the feds.
This has a real “hide the zombie bite from your friends” feel to it, albeit on a much grander scale.
It doesn’t help that the CDC capitulates to economic interests. Everyone suddenly saw that when the pandemic hit (except for the MAGA types, who somehow were convinced the CDC was being overly strict when it was quite the opposite). Hard to get your credibility back when it’s so blatant.
The loss of public trust in the CDC in particular and public health in general are a huge problem. We’ll need a generation or two to fix it.
It doesn’t help that the CDC capitulates to economic interests. Everyone suddenly saw that when the pandemic hit (except for the MAGA types, who somehow were convinced the CDC was being overly strict when it was quite the opposite). Hard to get your credibility back when it’s so blatant.