Time to fire up the mail-in "ballots" for another November coup: FDA says it's preparing for a bird flu pandemic in people that could kill one in four Americans --Dr. Robert Califf said the FDA was drawing up plans for a major outbreak [Disease X?] | 10 May 2024 | The FDA is gearing up for a bird flu pandemic in people that could kill one in four of those it infects, the agency's top official has revealed. Dr. Robert Califf told a Senate Committee that officials were drawing up plans to roll out tests, antiviral drugs, and vaccines [hard pass] in the event the virus jumps to humans. But he emphasized the risk of it spreading to people was still low, with only one person infected so far - a farm worker in Texas in March. "This virus, like all viruses, is mutating," he told the policymakers. "We need to continue to prepare for the possibility that it might jump to humans. [The] real worry is that it will jump to the human lungs where, when that has happened in other parts of the world... the mortality rate has been 25 percent."