‘The Great Pandemic Is Coming’: Ex-CDC Chief Warns of Looming Bird Flu Threat

Robert Redfield , who led the CDC during the first Trump administration, spoke with The Daily Signal last year about bird flu.

He predicted bird flu, also known as H5N1, would be “much more catastrophic than the COVID pandemic.” Redfield served on a nonpartisan commission on China and COVID-19 .

Long-COVID is now the third or fourth leading cause of death in America .

Bird flu’s mortality is going to be north of 5% , 10% , 15% , 20% .

Antiviral agents can be used prophylactically so that they infect less people, Redfield says.

Rob Bluey : Vaccines are important, but as we know from COVID , they didn’t stop 1.1 million Americans from dying, all right? They did keep certain people alive, and we’ve saved a lot of lives, particularly the vulnerable, he says.

Bluey says he's always been an advocate of vaccines for the vulnerable.