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EU regulator backs approval for Moderna's combined COVID and flu vaccine
Yahoo ^ | February 27, 2026 | Bhanvi Satjia

Posted on 03/19/2026 6:57:40 PM PDT by DoodleBob

Feb 27 (Reuters) - Europe's medicines regulator recommended approval for Moderna's COVID and flu combination vaccine on Friday, putting it on track to become the ‌first single shot to protect people aged 50 and older against both illnesses.

Currently ‌people need two separate shots to protect them against COVID-19 and influenza and the vaccines are updated regularly to ​match the viral strains in circulation.

Moderna is banking on the COVID-flu combination shot and also an mRNA-based flu shot to help it return to revenue growth as demand for COVID vaccines has collapsed in the years after the pandemic.

It hopes international markets will drive revenue growth this ‌year, as anti-vaccine activist U.S. Health ⁠Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has disrupted the domestic market.

Shares of the biotech, which were flat in ⁠U.S. premarket hours on Friday, have declined by nearly 90% from 2021 highs.

Last year, Moderna withdrew its U.S. application for its COVID-flu combination shot to wait for efficacy data from a late-stage trial ​of its ​influenza vaccine.

Earlier this month, the company said it ​was waiting for guidance from the ‌Food and Drug Administration on refiling the application.

U.S. regulators initially refused to review a separate mRNA-based flu vaccine from the company, then reversed course a week later after Moderna amended its application.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid; eu; moderna; vaccine

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Moderna ended today at $53.37, down from an all-time high of about $450 in Sept 2021.
1 posted on 03/19/2026 6:57:40 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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FUEU


2 posted on 03/19/2026 6:59:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies with Democrats.)
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> an mRNA-based flu shot <

Oh, great. Now there’s one more thing I’ve got to avoid.

So it will be question time at my next flu shot. This isn’t the Moderna flu shot, is it? Because if it is, bye. See ya later.


3 posted on 03/19/2026 7:02:07 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: DoodleBob

Let me get that right into me.....
/s


4 posted on 03/19/2026 7:02:09 PM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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They won’t be honest with you about it. I caught my cardiologist and my general practitioner lying about several things. The practices both get lucrative bonuses for meeting vaccine goals with the pharmaco’s. The business unit within the practice (usually private equity) demands the doctors meet their business goals.


5 posted on 03/19/2026 7:07:02 PM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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the problem with ANY combo medication is that WHEN side-effects occur, no one has any idea which component of the combo is causing the problem and should be avoided in the future if a side-effect is particularly severe ...

combos really should be avoided at all costs ...


6 posted on 03/19/2026 7:08:24 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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> They won’t be honest with you about it. <

Good point. Perhaps the patient should ask for the type of vaccine upfront, and in writing. They could still lie. But the request might make them think twice before doing so.


7 posted on 03/19/2026 7:16:52 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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I don't do vaccines anymore. They burned that bridge. I question everything. I had a few broken ribs back in December. They wanted to do everything they could have billing algorithms capture in a guy my age and condition, EXCEPT treat me for broken ribs. Covid test, MRI with contrast, enzyme level for heart attack, home health visitation, CT Scan, after waiting 12 hours in the ER Wairing room. I eventually declined treatment and walked out. I got some Ketorolac from a neighbor and ordered some more on-line. It got me out of spasm. The hospital refused to do anything for pain.

Medicine is not in your best interests these days (as it's being practiced).

8 posted on 03/19/2026 7:18:36 PM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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It is so dangerous to allow the practice of rewarding medical decisions with financial incentives. My trust in physicians is in the cellar.


9 posted on 03/19/2026 7:19:47 PM PDT by JayGalt ( “The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must”.)
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To: DoodleBob

Covid, Flu, AND Cancer!


10 posted on 03/19/2026 7:21:57 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months. Is that a big deal?)
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To: Leaning Right
They have a code for you if you question anything. It's in your charts and files.

https://www.aapc.com/codes/icd-10-codes/Z28.21 (scary stuff from WHO that American physicians adhere to)

11 posted on 03/19/2026 7:24:30 PM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: Mark
Trifecta!
12 posted on 03/19/2026 7:26:27 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: Leaning Right

Ask to see the vile and read the label before and as the syringe is being filled. Trust no one because a lot of medical professionals believe the mRNA jab a good thing.


13 posted on 03/19/2026 7:48:54 PM PDT by drypowder
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“first single shot to protect people aged 50 and older against both illnesses.”
It’s senior population control.
Don’t get it.


14 posted on 03/19/2026 7:52:06 PM PDT by doc maverick
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Nope. Don’t take a flu shot and didn’t take a Chicom shot. Nope, I’m no one’s guinea pig.


15 posted on 03/19/2026 8:16:39 PM PDT by gildafarrell (To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!)
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To: Leaning Right

At this point, taking multiple vaccines is akin to playing Russian Roulette.


16 posted on 03/19/2026 8:35:41 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: DoodleBob

OMG, they are back again to indocrinate the idiots that a flu shot is a vaccine.


17 posted on 03/19/2026 8:41:01 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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We all should have shorted Moderna’s stock back then.


18 posted on 03/19/2026 8:46:32 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Charlie Kirk's assassination / murder was our Fort Sumter moment. But only one side is fighting.)
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I refused to take either shot, too.

A flu shot nearly killed my father in Nov. 2002.


19 posted on 03/19/2026 8:47:46 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Charlie Kirk's assassination / murder was our Fort Sumter moment. But only one side is fighting.)
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I haven’t taken a flu shot since Covid. Didn’t trust them, and the reason is in the title.

I did get the flu a couple months ago. Mild. Better than what unknown garbage might’ve been in the syringe.


20 posted on 03/19/2026 8:53:46 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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