NIH admitting that the current flu vaccines may not protect against all variants

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/bird-flu-concerns-grow-scientists-race-develop-new-vaccines-rcna187824
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The two vaccine candidates in the stockpile are regularly tested against currently circulating strains of bird flu, he said. While that means scientists won’t need to start from scratch like with Covid, he said, the current shots still may not provide the best protection possible and are unlikely to provide protection against multiple variants.
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They should admit that the Missouri dairy flu case would not have been susceptible to their current H5N1 vaccine candidates.
Moderna is working up a vaccine against the dairy virus, but they should be using a more current sequence than the virus that has been used for most of the cell culture research.  That virus was isolated from the first human infected by the dairy virus, and the sequence is very different at this time.
mRNA vaccines are likely the fastest to be adapted to the virus that does eventually jump to infecting humans, but any sequences that they are currently working with should be the latest infections from infected dairies.  They do not mention the D1.1 genotype, but they need to be working up a vaccine to that virus.  It is much more deadly to humans than the dairy genotype B3.13.  The two humans infected by the D1.1 virus both became critically ill, and one died.  All the humans infected by the dairy virus have had mild symptoms, mostly just eye infections. The D1.1 is a respiratory infection.
I do not know who made the decision to not differentiate the two viral infections, but they will likely face criminal charges for stupidity and suppression of information if things go south and the D1.1 virus starts the next pandemic.  The suppression of the information and the lack of a response to the D1.1 virus can't be stupidity, it has to be done on purpose.  What is the excuse going to be?  Trump claimed that he lied about Covid because he didn't want to panic the public.  The D1.1 virus has to be treated totally differently than the nonresponse to the dairy virus.  We need to determine where the virus exists in the wild, and warn bird owners both free Range commercial and backyard bird owners that they have to watch their birds carefully, and if there are any signs of infection they need to contact the CDC and USDA immediately, and have their birds tested.  They should minimize contact with the animals, and people in hasmat suits will likely show up to test their birds.  No one wants to be infected by the D1.1 virus.  Both infected individuals created the next pandemic virus that could more easily infect humans.  The claim is that those mutations occurred independently during the infection in both cases.  Those mutations are obviously being selected for in the human tissues that the D1.1 virus can infect.  If that is true the next infected person could be patient zero for the next pandemic.  We were lucky that the two infected individuals were isolated before they could infect others.  The lack of any rapid response by the CDC would have insured that the next pandemic would have started if they had infected others.
Ron Okimoto