Suppose more human H5N1 cases crop up (alongside the many that are probably being undetected currently). What’s the plan? Suppose household transmission clusters start appearing, or cases that haven’t had any animal contact. What’s the plan? Suppose we start seeing human cases exported to other countries, and evidence of high severity in certain age groups, alongside growing evidence of human-to-human transmission. What’s the plan? Not ‘what’s a retweetable sound bite that wouldn’t get the reproduction number below 1’. Not ‘what’s a snippet of a pre-2020 pandemic flu plan that assumes vast numbers of deaths and doesn’t account for subsequent innovations in use of rapid tests, digital contact tracing etc’ What, here in 2024, is the plan for dealing with an outbreak of a potentially pandemic pathogen like H5N1?