15 more states enroll in USDA dairy testing program

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/fifteen-more-states-enroll-usda-milk-testing-program
It has been over 2 months since the USDA claimed that they were going to start bulk milk tank testing dairies.  This is the third update of states added to the program.  The USDA is claiming to have some initial results, but they do not state how many dairies have been sampled at this time, just that the results have been negative.  This seems impossible if they had started with California.
This article doesn't note that the program was initially announced in early Nov, and that, that resulted in the first 6 states being selected by Dec 6.  Really, it took them around 4 weeks just to decide to start with 6 states when the initial claim was they were going to start with states with known herd infections.  The longer they wait the more dairies will have cleared the infection before they are tested.  Most states were infected long before California and California already claims that 56 of their initially infected herds have cleared the virus already.
They are still not making a distinction between the dairy virus and the D1.1 genotype for infected poultry flocks.  Most of the flocks have been infected by dairy workers working on commercial poultry farms, but the number of backyard flock infections are increasing.  This is bad if the D1.1 genotype is infecting these backyard flocks because that is how the Louisiana patient that died got infected.  The USDA and CDC should have separate programs for dealing with the dairy virus or the genotype D1.1 virus.  The dairy virus is mainly limited to dairy herds, dairy workers, and the poultry flocks and subsequently infected poultry workers that have been infected by the dairy workers.  The main tissue infected seems to be mammary glands and tear ducts, and the the virus hasn't mutated to be more infective to humans, and has had mild symptoms in all farm workers that have been infected.
The D1.1 genotype is different.  It seems to more easily acquire the mutations needed to make it a human virus.  Both human cases had virus with the needed mutations, and it is thought that, that is one reason why their symptoms have been so severe.  The Canadian was in critical condition and could not breath on their own at one point, and the Louisiana patient died.  Backyard pet poultry are exposed to wild birds, that are carrying the D1.1 genotype, as they roam around the yard.  The USDA and CDC have to try to keep the poultry owners from being infected or we will have more fatalities.
For the Dairy virus all they needed to do to control the virus was to identify all the infected herds and isolate the dairy workers and keep the workers and cattle from going to other farms.  If that had been done at the beginning, the dairy epidemic would be over by now.
For the D1.1 genotype they need to identify where the virus exists in the wild, warn the poultry owners in those areas, and tell them what to do if their poultry look sick.  They need to be prepared to go in rapidly and test suspected birds and minimize the exposure of the owners to the D1.1 virus.  They should also think about vaccinating backyard bird owners against the D1.1 virus.  This means that they need a rapid test for the D1.1 virus, and they need to extensively survey wild bird populations in order to determine where the D1.1 genotype exists.
Ron Okimoto