Summary
The FDA canceled its March meeting to select flu strains for next season’s vaccine without explanation, raising concerns among health experts.
The annual meeting is important for updating flu shots, ensuring they are effective against evolving strains.
The cancellation follows a postponed CDC vaccine meeting and comes amid a severe flu season with 19,000 adult and 86 pediatric deaths.
The WHO will still hold its strain selection meeting, but U.S. officials have limited engagement due to Trump’s WHO withdrawal order.
Concerns grow over HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s influence on vaccine policy.
LOL. We’re going to die stupidly.
I’m hoping for the asteroid
Last I heard, best we can hope for is it hits the moon
That would stir some shit up though. Maybe a large chunk would be pulled to earth and be worse!
Not too likely, I was watching Anton Petrov yesterday about this, we can keep up the happy thoughts tho ;)
People really don’t get that trump works for Putin, and his job is to fucking destroy us?
Please be extra cautious this year everyone.
Concerns grow? Shouldn’t we be at the outrage stage by now?
We should be PAST the outrage stage by now… but we’re not, and we’re not going to be until it’s to late, than everyone will act horrified and say ‘if only we had known, we would have stopped it.’
We should be at the “infighting to decide who will take power after taking everyone previously in power to the guillotine” stage.
It is long past time for torches and pitchforks.
People are going to die. Given that many older people vote Republican, this could affect future elections, if there are any.
That’s what I thought would happen with COVID, but it doesn’t appear to have affected demographics by that much.
Plus there’s a scary amount of young people that are somehow feeling into this right wing rabbit hole.
oh it DID affect the election, but the problem was a whole lot of radicalized Gen-Zers who listen to Dan Savage and such swung to the right all of a sudden. basically the effect of the elder deaths was nullified.
There was a strong emphasis on masks/isolation/hand washing for COVID that you generally don’t see for the flu. We’ve had flu vaccines for so long that a lot of people don’t realize how serious it can be for the elderly. They may find out the hard way.
People tend to think that the flu is a bad cold, not realizing that even healthy people can be laid up for 2 weeks at a time.
Right then. Vaccine trip to Canada next year.
On Friday, a World Health Organization advisory committee is scheduled to meet on which strains should be included in the next flu vaccines in the Northern Hemisphere. That meeting typically influences the FDA’s strain selection.
The quick cancellation of the meeting might have some downstream effects on strain selection. I’m really hoping this won’t affect Canada.
Remember when they said it would be OUR choice to make regarding this stuff?
Your choice to make your own vaccine in your personal lab with scientists you employ.
This is our money! We pay taxes for this shit. And at this point I feel we are being taxed without representation! It’s time for another Independence Day!
We can vote with our money…by pooling all our our spare dimes to create our own world health science lab with blackjack and hookers. (This is sarcasm.)
