Both my fear and my hope early on were that it if there was already H5N1 out there, that it was "indistinguishable" from COVID in that people were getting sick and either not testing, or getting negative COVID tests and assuming it was actually COVID. The hope being that then it was clearly not 50% fatal.
@BE @PacificNic
Crazy that it manages to pass from the URT to multiple organ systems but hasn't moved past the eye in several cases.