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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“My wife and I are an excellent long term experiment on the flu vaccine.”
Test and control groups of size 1 are not excellent experimental design.
“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.”
If the guess isn’t made, the chance of getting it right is 0.
Two people over five decades may not be perfect science—but it is solid data.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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