Posted on 03/01/2025 11:42:18 AM PST by logi_cal869
Multiple vaccine projects have been paused by the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy paused a multimillion-dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine, an advisory committee said Wednesday.
The Covid project was a $460 million contract with Vaxart to develop a new Covid vaccine in pill form, with 10,000 people scheduled to begin clinical trials on Monday. Of that, $240 million was reportedly already authorized for the preliminary study.
Advertisement “While it is crucial that the Department [of] Health and Human Services support pandemic preparedness, four years of the Biden administration’s failed oversight have made it necessary to review agreements for vaccine production, including Vaxart’s,” Kennedy said, according to Fox News.
“I look forward to working with Vaxart and medical experts to ensure this work produces safe, effective, and fiscal-minded vaccine technology,” Kennedy added.
Meanwhile, the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, or VRBPAC, was scheduled to meet in March to discuss the strains that would be included in next season’s flu shot, but federal officials told the committee in an email Wednesday that the meeting was canceled, said committee member Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
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I post it as the first effective action(s) since RFK Jr took his post.
Good news.
Agreed.
More good news: The CEO of processed food giant Mondelez (formerly Kraft) has announced that products to be sold in the US will have their recipes switched to those used in their European versions. I.e., much less artificial colors and flavors and other chemical and unnatural ingredients, many of which are banned in Europe. For the processed food industry, this is the equivalent of “self-deporting.”
Probably took longer to issue the press release than it did for him to decide to do it.
good start.
When is the last time the world saw a legitimate “pandemic”?
Time to sell pharmaceutical stocks?
HOORAY RFK Jr. MAHA
If they come out in pill form, how will they inject chips into it s?
So we’re against the influenza vaccine too?
I looked for confirmation of this online, but couldn’t find any. Would love a source for this, thanks.
The problem with the flu vaccine is by the time it becomes available the the flu mutates and that vaccine is not as effective…if at all.
I’m not in favor of the flu vaccine. Not much evidence that supports the need for it.
I’m almost 72 and haven’t gotten a flu shot in over 35 years. Just treated it the three times I’ve gotten the flu in all that time.
My wife and I are an excellent long term experiment on the flu vaccine.
She has taken it every year for decades.
I have never taken it for those same decades.
She has gotten the flu more than I have.
Total joke.
That IS good news from Kraft! Even before the inauguration some companies had begun to make healthier products after RFK had brought attention to the problems.
Like my husband and me. He gets the flu shot and I don’t. He gets the flue and I don’t. (Knock wood.)
Make ivermectin and HCQ hydroxychloroquine OTC over the counter. No prescription.
the issue with the flu vaccine is, the formulation has always been a guessing game as to what version of flu will dominate a year from now.
I just spent 7 days in the hospital with a tough case of Type A flu requiring high-flo oxygen for 4 days. (the hospital didn’t tell me but i assume seasonal vs bird flu). The current vaccine is only about 30% effective against Type A so the vaccine likely wouldnt have prevented me from catching Type A. Ancedotally, some sources report this flu season is the worst in 28 years, with 1/3 of flu tests returning as positive and 24 million reported cases. The SoCal hospital I was in had returned to mask policy and no visitors in the ER/ICU, even the person coming in with you was excluded. The CDC needs to get better at modeling to produce more effective vaccines.
Vaccine effectiveness was 34.5% against hospitalization, according to interim estimates from a new article published by the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
CDC alerts clinicians to accelerate type A flu subtyping in hospitalized patients
CDC: Flu activity remains high, COVID-19 increasing while RSV peaks
The pharmacy staff at my Kaiser Permanente are all wearing masks. I asked if it was due to the flu outbreak and the answer was that it was.
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