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.

    • @Cheems
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      425 minutes ago

      I’m hoping for the asteroid

  • @surewhynotlem
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    124 minutes ago

    Right then. Vaccine trip to Canada next year.

  • TomMasz
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    82 hours ago

    People are going to die. Given that many older people vote Republican, this could affect future elections, if there are any.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 hour ago

      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.

      • TomMasz
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        51 hour ago

        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.

  • @cabron_offsets
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    283 hours ago

    People really don’t get that trump works for Putin, and his job is to fucking destroy us?

  • @THB
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    363 hours ago

    Concerns grow? Shouldn’t we be at the outrage stage by now?

    • @Hellinabucket
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      263 hours ago

      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.’

      • @[email protected]
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        12 minutes ago

        We should be at the “infighting to decide who will take power after taking everyone previously in power to the guillotine” stage.

    • @cabron_offsets
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      93 hours ago

      It is long past time for torches and pitchforks.

  • Erasmus
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    73 hours ago

    Remember when they said it would be OUR choice to make regarding this stuff?

    • @danski
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      72 hours ago

      Your choice to make your own vaccine in your personal lab with scientists you employ.

      • The Pantser
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        234 minutes ago

        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!

      • @[email protected]
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        1 hour ago

        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.)