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How Worried to Be About Bird Flu

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Katherine J. Wu , a science reporter, says her level of concern about bird flu is now "medium-plus" Wu : "I don’t think I will upgrade to “high” unless we start to see strong evidence of human-to-human transmission.

Wu : The movement of the virus into cows was a huge red flag.

There is a tendency for a binary response of doing everything or doing nothing, Katherine says.

She says the things that worked against COVID work well against a lot of other diseases.

Maybe don’t go to work when you’re sick, but maybe don't send your child to day care sick.

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