Jet planes and bird strikes

I was reading an article about a United Airlines jet today, that had an engine flame out after ingesting a bird while taking off from O'hare. Shouldn't those engines be designed by now so that a bird strike won't really affect them?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-flight-emergency-bird-strike-plane-chicago-ohare-airport/

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windinhishair · 61-69, M

So far, given the physics of the large engines, it has been impossible to make them immune from bird strikes.

Penny · 46-50, F

@windinhishair they cant put a screen over it?

latinbutterfly · F

@Penny Problem with that is if the screen is worn, a piece of it could probably come off and get sucked into the engine.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@Penny I'm sure they have thought of that. The amount of air those engines require is huge, and a screen would significantly decrease the amount of air that could easily pass through the turbine blades. I haven't seen their reasoning or calculations, but I assume the loss of power that would create makes that impractical.