How the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic

Photo credit: Getty Images. Article by Jessica Hamzelou. MIT Technology Review: The Checkup – January 10, 2025.

This week marks a strange anniversary—it’s five years since most of us first heard about a virus causing a mysterious “pneumonia.” A virus that we later learned could cause a disease called covid-19. A virus that swept the globe and has since been reported to have been responsible for over 7 million deaths—and counting. I first covered the virus in […]

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