By Dr. Joshua Sinai
This bi-weekly “Bio Attack Risk Report” brings politicians, government agency heads, and business executives (including leaders of not-for-profit enterprises) up to date on significant news regarding the risks associated with bio-outbreaks at all levels of global society, from enterprises to regions to nations to international (pandemics), and whether nature-made or human-manufactured by terrorists.
KFF, “Global COVID-19 Tracker,” January 14, 2025, https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/global-covid-19-tracker/.
This tracker provides the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, as well as the rate of daily COVID-19 cases and deaths by country, income, region, and globally. Its data is drawn from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard. As of December 29, 2024, in term of Covid-19 pandemic trends, there were 777,126,421 cumulative cases, 9,292 weekly new cases, 7,079,925 cumulative deaths, and 246 weekly new cases.
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Filip Timotija, “Viral sicknesses rise amid ‘quad-demic’ in US,” January 18, 2025, The Hill,
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, viral sicknesses, in terms of the three respiratory viruses and one gastrointestinal disease, rose in early 2025 amid the ongoing “quad-demic” in the U.S. The number of people that caught COVID-19, influenza or Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), along with norovirus, has also increased according to the CDC.
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CDC, “H5 Bird Flu: Current Situation,” https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html.
According to the CDC, the H5 bird flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks in poultry and U.S. dairy cows with several recent human cases in U.S. dairy and poultry workers. While the current public health risk is low, the CDC is watching the situation carefully and working with states to monitor people with animal exposures. The CDC is using its flu surveillance systems to monitor for H5 bird flu activity in people.
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr., “As bird flu concerns grow, scientists race to develop new vaccines,” NBC News, January 15, 2025, https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/bird-flu-concerns-grow-scientists-race-develop-new-vaccines-rcna187824.
On January 17, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded $590 million in funding to Moderna in part to fast-track the development of an mRNA bird flu vaccine.
This was due to fears of a possible bird flu pandemic, with the strains of bird flu currently circulating in wild birds, poultry and dairy cows. The funding is in addition to the $176 million HHS awarded Moderna in July to develop a bird flu vaccine.
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Just Capital, “COVID-19 Resource Center,” https://justcapital.com/covid-19/.
JUST Capital has created a COVID-19 Corporate Response Tracker, which analyzes how America’s 1,000 largest public employers responded during the initial months of the pandemic. It provides data analysis on key issues such as paid sick leave, health and safety, financial assistance: hazard pay, bonuses, & grants, CEO pay and layoffs, and dependent care.
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