FDA approves first self-administered flu vaccine

The Hill ^ | 09/20/2024 | Joseph Choi

[ChicagoConservative27]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Friday it has approved the first flu vaccine that can be self-administered, with this version being a nasal spray as opposed to an injection.

The vaccine FluMist, manufactured by MedImmune, which was acquired by AstraZeneca in 2007, was first approved by the FDA in 2003 for individuals between five and 49 years of age. Its approval has since been expanded to include children as young as two years old.

With the FDA’s announcement Friday, FluMist is officially the first flu vaccine that can be administered without a healthcare provider’s involvement. The spray contains a weakened form of flu virus strains and still requires a prescription. It can be administered by “the vaccine recipient or a caregiver who is 18 years of age or older.”

“Today’s approval of the first influenza vaccine for self- or caregiver-administration provides a new option for receiving a safe and effective seasonal influenza vaccine potentially with greater convenience, flexibility and accessibility for individuals and families,” Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in a statement.

[ChicagoConservative27]

No and no

[butlerweave]

The Psychopath Bill Gates will want to spray it EVERYWHERE

[chuckb87]

I foresee libtards here in the Bay Area incessantly taking hits of that sh!t.

[KamperKen]

We now go from murder to suicide.

[Revel]

The progressives will be out there spraying it in everyone’s faces.

[Karoo]

Iodine is anti-virus. Why can’t you take Lugol’s iodine 2% one drop daily?

[Texan5]

Just no-no shots, and no spray-no flu vaxx, no way...

[armourenthusiast]

If I spray a yankee in the face with this, will I get in trouble if I say I am nosophobic, and it was self defense?
P.S. This spray isn’t full of mrna is it?

[SamAdams76]

Fine with me. Just send me the vaccines to self-administer and I'll throw them in the garbage and say I took it.

If I can be trusted to put my vote in a dropbox, then surely I can be trusted to administer my own vaccines!

[ChicagoConservative27]

LMAO

[redcatcherb412]

So you spray the flu virus directly up your nose against the blood brain barrier for fast access to your circulatory system. Hmmmmmm no problem, right?

[Secret Agent Man]

Marketed under self-suicide meds...

[Paal Gulli]

I smell an mRna trojan vaccine.

[metmom]

Still a no.

[cambyses]

Theoretically intranasal administration of a vaccine should work. Practically the attachment of the virus/vaccine on the surface of the respiratory cells is difficult due to the mucus presence. So, no attachment of the vaccine on the receptors, no antigenic stimulation, no immune response, and no protection.