Willful stupidity at the CDC. Dairy H5N1

https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/php/monitoring-bird-flu/agenda.html#:~:text=Since%20April%202024%2C%20several%20human,Bird%20Flu%3A%20Current%20Situation).
The CDC has issued their public health agenda for the H5N1 situation comedy that they are currently playing out.
Their primary objective is what it should have been from day one.
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Objective 1
Prevent infection and illness in people exposed to HPAI A(H5N1) viruses.
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They have known for months what they needed to do in order to meet this objective, but never initiated an effective program that would accomplish this objective.
They needed to identify all the infected herds, and quarantine them and the workers, and close contacts of those workers, on those farms.  They needed to require personal protective equipment for all humans working with the infected cattle.  They never attempted to identify all the infected herds and only "recommended" personal protective equipment be used by workers working with infected cattle.  They never attempted to identify all the infected herds so that they could attempt to keep humans at those farms from being infected.
As sad as it may seem they still refuse to do what they know that they should have been doing from day one, and claim that continuing to do the monitoring and work with the virus will meet their #1 objective when it never will.  The longer that the virus is allowed to spread among the dairy herds the more dairy workers will be infected.  If the workers do not know that the herd is infected they have no reason to use personal protective gear, and are open to getting infected.
It has to be some type of willful stupidity that they refuse to admit that they have been wrong for months, and instead of initiate what they should have done months ago, they want to keep doing what is not working.
All they needed to do was to start testing pooled milk samples from every dairy and testing them.  The FDA had tested milk processing plants in 34 states by the end of April.  At that time only 9 states were known to have positive herds, but processing plants in 9 new states (not then known to have positive herds) produced H5N1 positive milk products.  The CDC could have gone to those plants, and gotten a list of all the dairy herds that could have contributed to the positive samples and tested those herds, but no one wanted to find any new positive herds.  The FDA released the names of the states producing positive milk products on May 10th, but still no one used the information to identify more herds in more states.  Since then only 3 more states have admitted to having positive herds and 2 of those states were already known to have produced the positive FDA samples.  Those herds would have been identified much sooner if anyone had acted on the FDA findings.  There are a lot more dairy workers being exposed to infected herds than they want to admit.
Ron Okimoto