Public opinion is characterized by skepticism, blame, and concern about the rise in COVID-19 cases in India. There is frustration towards governmental and societal responses, with discussions on China as a source and media exaggeration. A call for action, including lockdowns and stricter measures, reflects safety concerns. Criticism is rampant, highlighted by sarcasm and distrust towards political figures and media narratives. There's also unease about new variants, vaccine access, and global pandemic handling, reminiscent of early pandemic fears.

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Not sure why we still don't ban the flights from India. This kind of "advisory" means nothing.

ThePiggleWiggle

The Maldives are the second most vaccinated country in the world with 55% of the population 😨

lorenzo_6991

Why the Maldives? You can sit on your own private resort island if you want to, about as far away from people as you can get.

crowd79

Aren't there already a bunch of travel bans in place to pretty much everywhere? I didn't know international travel was even an option, even to western countries like Europe?

kalidosc

And yet the US is still allowing flights to and from India and Brazil.

We should be banning travel to any country unless you are vaccinated.

KingofDragonPass

They should really be banning travel, not "recommending" anything. We've seen how well people follow recommendations.

TheRealCormanoWild

Fuck everything. What a shit show. I just learnt my dad tested positive in India. I am scared for my mom. They have no help. My sibling and I live in different parts of the world, they are alone.

worm1010

India is getting royally fucked by this new more virulent variant. If this virus made its way to other countries without proper covid guidance and vaccination program, we are beyond fucked, this pandemic will never end.

xeridium

Advised? FUCKING BAN THEM FROM GOING! Advising them won't do anything because they're self centered jerks.

Yushamari

You guys have an open border with india presently?

imanurseatwork

Funny, the smart move would be for our government to ban anyone from entering the country that had been to those countries.  Wouldn't be hard to due their passports when entering from any international flight would show whether they had been to a virus hotspot... and if they tried to come in put them on the next flight back to where they arrived from, even if they were Americans.  It isn't like we don't have enough typhoid Marys already.

yirmin

cauliflowerbroccoli

Do any Americans intending to travel actually follow this advice?

star_on_my_armband

Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka ...

Seriously, I really have to check up what the rest of the family is up to!

Now_Wait-4-Last_Year

The gov strongly recommends...

Even if they cut 50 percent of arrivals the amount of covid around those places is still too high.

Even the negative test before flight doesn't work

ExcellentsBerry

Advisories and suggestions don't work on Americans. Americans are not culturally Japanese.

Have banned flights from India coming into USA?

earthgreen10

Were poor, most of us were not planning to.

Wasn't it a really bad idea for an American to go to Afghanistan even before COVID? Maybe not Pakistan either.

OlyScott

The Maldives? They have fewer cases than NYS!!! It would be safer for me to go there vs staying here!!!

TheFuture2001

After waiting all this time since the beginning of the pandemic, one of my coworkers went to India to visit family a few weeks ago. I can't believe how bad her luck is.

lupuscapabilis

I guess I'll have to cancel the annual family trip to Club Med Kandahar. The kids will be so disappointed.

ScagWhistle

Should be stopping flights into and out of.

PhillipIslandPenguin

Then stop passenger flights from flying back and forth...

hatrickstar

Imagine if we, as humans first, had each other’s best health in mind. Might take care of a lot of other bumps in the road…

multisubcultural1

Copy pasta,



BEIJING, Dec 27 (Reuters) - China's diseases control authority said on Friday that it was piloting a monitoring system for pneumonia of unknown origin, with cases of some respiratory diseases expected to rise through the winter.The move to establish a dedicated system is aimed at helping authorities set up protocols to handle unknown pathogens, in contrast to the lower level of preparedness five years ago when the novel coronavirus that causes [COVID-19](https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/chinese-officials-investigate-cause-of-pneumonia-outbreak-in-wuhan-idUSKBN1YZ0GO/) first emerged.

The National Disease Control and Prevention Administration will establish a procedure for laboratories to report and for disease control and prevention agencies to verify and handle cases, state broadcaster CCTV reported, quoting an administration official at a news [conference.Data](http://conference.Data) for acute respiratory diseases showed an upward trend in overall infections in the week of Dec. 16 to 22, according to an official statement released on Thursday.

China is likely to be affected by various respiratory infectious diseases in winter and spring, Kan Biao, another official, said at the news conference. He said without elaborating that the overall number of cases this year would be smaller than last year.Recent cases detected include pathogens such as the rhinovirus and human metapneumovirus, with cases of the human metapneumovirus among people under the age of 14 showing an upward trend, especially in northern [provinces.In](http://provinces.In) a recent interview with the state-backed National Business Daily, a respiratory expert at a Shanghai hospital warned the public against blindly using antiviral drugs to fight human metapneumovirus, for which there is no vaccine but whose symptoms resemble those of a cold.

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Reporting by Ryan Woo and Yukun Zhang; Editing by Hugh Lawson

Old-Suspect4129

Mad that it's almost 5 years to the day when I read on here about them trying to cover up what became Covid.

Ornery_Lion4179

RobotLaserNinjaShark

will they have to wear a mask at the hospital and check-posts? I mean maybe staffing your essential workers with people that dont follow safety precautions, isnt the best idea?

begonetroll

Have them handle moving the bodies and digging graves. Little risk for them infecting anyone other than themselves.

sombralkem

UnfilteredAmerica

“Will have to work as volunteers”

That not what volunteering means. 

Are they, like, sentenced to high risk community service or something? Is this a crime? Dafuq

This gives me a strong starship trooper vibe

Raxuis

How is it working as a volunteer if they are forced to do it...

Spikex8

I think TVs in America should run “graphic” ads about covid and what can happen even if you “recover”, we need visuals and maybe people will take it serious

tinacat933

Why would India be participating in the U.S. democratic hoax? /s

kevonicus

People who think they'll be straight up put into the most important part of the hospital are so stupid obviously they won't 
They'll be made to do small errands inside the hospital and just you know made to be there just so they could see how bad the situation is and 'hopefully' change their minds
Obviously those fuckers won't be given a sthetescope and be announced as doctors xD

pendharkar_arjun

That sounds dangerous to put irresponsible people in such positions

ukiyuh

justcallmefafara

Having untrained people who don’t follow sanitation protocol around sick people is a terrible idea!

cutearmy

&gt;'Have to'

&gt;'Voilenteer'

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

ProfessorNasty

“Have to work” 

“Volunteer” 

Those terms are mutually exclusive

Not really a volunteer when your forced to do it.

Wouldn't that make it more likely for them to spread it?

kregerator

SelarDorr

There is a certain poetic justice to this, but **do you really want someone who is so reckless with public safety to be working in a hospital?**

ruve27

Needs to be people that refuse when asked to comply or repeatedly violate. Also, police need to document otherwise they'll abuse this to punish people they don't like

TheBigPhilbowski

I like the idea. But wouldn’t it be counterproductive to put people not taking their health seriously around vulnerable people in hospitals?

UnderwaterDialect

usernae_throwaway

Irresponsible people, who can't follow instructions to save people lives? Lets put them in charge of saving peoples lives... Jesus christ this post is ironic.

U_R_Tard

That's kind of the exact opposite of volunteer.

Splurch

They are not going to be handling patients ofcourse, they should handle other stuff like cleaning the toilets etc.

satyanaraynan

kathyrobertsonworks

China's diseases control authority said on Friday that it was piloting a monitoring system for pneumonia of unknown origin, with cases of some respiratory diseases expected to rise through the winter.

The move to establish a dedicated system is aimed at helping authorities set up protocols to handle unknown pathogens, in contrast to the lower level of preparedness five years ago when the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 first emerged.
The National Disease Control and Prevention Administration will establish a procedure for laboratories to report and for disease control and prevention agencies to verify and handle cases, state broadcaster CCTV reported, quoting an administration official at a news conference.

Data for acute respiratory diseases showed an upward trend in overall infections in the week of Dec. 16 to 22, according to an official statement released on Thursday.
China is likely to be affected by various respiratory infectious diseases in winter and spring, Kan Biao, another official, said at the news conference. He said without elaborating that the overall number of cases this year would be smaller than last year.
Recent cases detected include pathogens such as the rhinovirus and human metapneumovirus, with cases of the human metapneumovirus among people under the age of 14 showing an upward trend, especially in northern provinces.

In a recent interview with the state-backed National Business Daily, a respiratory expert at a Shanghai hospital warned the public against blindly using antiviral drugs to fight human metapneumovirus, for which there is no vaccine but whose symptoms resemble those of a cold.

antihostile

niewphonix

Legitimate question.. Why does it always seem to start in china? Is it due to population or something else?

Ragefan2k

Phase 1/2 H5 avian flu vaccine study shows positive interim results

Company has been notified that HHS will terminate Moderna's award for late-stage development of pre-pandemic influenza vaccines

CAMBRIDGE, MA / ACCESS Newswire / May 28, 2025 / Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNA) today announced positive interim data from a Phase 1/2 clinical study (NCT05972174) evaluating the safety and immunogenicity of its investigational pandemic influenza vaccine, mRNA-1018, in approximately 300 healthy adults aged 18 years and older. The interim results focus on a vaccine candidate targeting the H5 avian influenza virus subtype.

The Company had previously expected to advance the program to late-stage development with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); however, today Moderna received notice that HHS will terminate the award for the late-stage development and right to purchase pre-pandemic influenza vaccines.

"While the termination of funding from HHS adds uncertainty, we are pleased by the robust immune response and safety profile observed in this interim analysis of the Phase 1/2 study of our H5 avian flu vaccine and we will explore alternative paths forward for the program," said Stéphane Bancel, Chief Executive Officer of Moderna. "These clinical data in pandemic influenza underscore the critical role mRNA technology has played as a countermeasure to emerging health threats."

The Phase 1/2 study evaluated a two-dose regimen of Moderna's investigational avian influenza vaccine. mRNA-1018 demonstrated a rapid, potent and durable immune response. At baseline, pre-existing immunity was minimal, with only 2.1% of participants showing hemagglutination inhibition (HAI) antibody titers ≥1:40, an HAI titer considered to correlate with protection. At Day 43, three weeks after the second vaccination, 97.8% of participants achieved titers ≥1:40 with a 44.5-fold increase of titers from baseline.

The investigational vaccine was generally well-tolerated, with no dose-limiting tolerability concerns observed. Most solicited adverse reactions were Grade 1 or 2 and did not increase significantly with number of doses or between first and second doses. Further data is expected to be submitted for presentation at an upcoming scientific meeting.

Moderna will explore alternatives for late-stage development and manufacturing of the H5 program consistent with the Company's strategic commitment to pandemic preparedness.

shallah

I seriously and honestly hope that my family and I will be able to go to Canada and get vaccines because it's pretty clear we're not going to be getting them here. Can't wait until they go after tetanus.

pockunit

India faces a rise in COVID-19 cases driven by new variants. The central government is conducting nationwide mock drills to assess hospital readiness, maintaining medical supplies, and reinforcing safety measures.

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