On Thursday, Barrasso told Cowboy State Daily he doesn’t believe Cheney deserves the Presidential Citizens Medal that President Joe Biden is awarding her.
“President Biden was either going to pardon Liz Cheney or give her an award,” Barrasso said. “She doesn’t deserve either. She represents partisanship and divisiveness — not Wyoming.”
As bird flu continues to ramp up, many are wondering what tools—namely, vaccines—we have to fight it if such intervention becomes necessary.
“Public-health and infectious disease folks around the world are watching bird flu very, very carefully,” says Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and spokesperson for the Infectious Disease Society of America. “The concern is that this virus could acquire the capacity to attach to human cells and spread widely. That would be opening the door to a new pandemic for sure.”
For that to happen, the H5N1 virus would have to develop the right mutations that allow it to more easily infect human cells—a process that could occur more easily if someone were to be infected with both seasonal flu and H5N1, for instance, allowing the two viruses to exchange genetic information and recombine into a strain that readily infects and spreads among people.
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“I am sorry for what many of you had to endure over the last two years,” Teeples said. “Today we start anew.”
Teeples didn’t specifically mention the board’s past majority faction, known as Ottawa Impact, as the hardship that employees managed to endure.
But his reference was obvious to a packed board room during the Thursday, Jan. 2, Ottawa County Commission organizational meeting.
