Secretary Kennedy seems to believe that vaccines against respiratory bugs that target a single antigen don't work. People who have studied and designed vaccines beg to differ. With multiple pending #Covid vaccines before #FDA, this may not bode well. www.statnews.com/2025/04/10/r... - ThreadSky

helenbranswell.bsky.social • 42 days ago

Secretary Kennedy seems to believe that vaccines against respiratory bugs that target a single antigen don't work.
People who have studied and designed vaccines beg to differ.
With multiple pending #Covid vaccines before #FDA, this may not bode well. https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/10/rfk-jr-single-antigen-vaccines-novavax-fda-decision/

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charge256.bsky.social•41 days ago

WTF America.

dapperdude.bsky.social•41 days ago

Probably related: I was in the waiting room of a pulmonary office today and they always ask if patients have flu/covid symptoms. But a lead for the office walked out and I overheard him tell the staff to stop asking about covid symptoms because "we are going to be impacted by that".

wndlb.bsky.social•42 days ago

Can Canada approve independently of US? Mexico?

adithyar.bsky.social•42 days ago

Sure, but approval isn't the obstacle here (outside the US). It's production. Novavax has been perennially experiencing financial issues and struck a lifeline deal with Sanofi contingent on this FDA approval. Pfizer & Moderna are also going to examine their bottomline. The US was the

eastpole.bsky.social•41 days ago

Perhaps we should re-evaluate the way patent and patent override works for medicines that are approved but are not being manufactured.

adithyar.bsky.social•42 days ago

...largest Covid vaccine market. Unless individual blue states find their spine and work around the corrupt/doge-ified/fascist federal agencies to deal directly with pharma, it's likely the latter may choose to not manufacture vaccines. Canada is a tiny market.

consbegone.bsky.social•41 days ago

Does this mean no updated Covid vaccines this year?

adithyar.bsky.social•41 days ago

Probably not 😢

consbegone.bsky.social•41 days ago

That's bad. Wow.
Thanks for replying to my question. I have followed you throughout Covid on Twitter and appreciate you sharing your expertise!

pam111.bsky.social•41 days ago

What countries are we going to have to travel to for updated covid vaccines?! Does anyone know if the current formulas still work against current variants? We can't get Novavax in Canada.

karunas.bsky.social•42 days ago

Maybe they will lower the minimum order requirement for Canada if they have no US market?

adithyar.bsky.social•42 days ago

If they survive as a company. I hope Sanofi will rework the deal if RFK et al. hold Novavax hostage.

rjdexmd.bsky.social•41 days ago

Write to Thomas Grenier, Head of Vaccines for Sanofi, North America, based in New Jersey. Ask Sanofi to stand by Novavax.

His Sanofi email address is publicly available on line.

karunas.bsky.social•41 days ago

Yeah unfortunately that’s the more likely outcome I think.

gardeninglisa.bsky.social•41 days ago

Why is against monovalent vaccines? Need references. Not a podcast.

moochie1642.bsky.social•41 days ago

eastpole.bsky.social•41 days ago

He's a lawyer, so he can just say they "don't work" and no one will expect scientific precision of him. Instead we need to demand to know what it means for a vaccine to just "not work." Is that the same "not working" as seatbelts, because it's still definitely possible to still die in a car crash?

eastpole.bsky.social•41 days ago

Perhaps the same "not working" as sunscreen, since people who wear clothes, sunscreen, and don't go outdoors at noon still sometimes manage to get skin cancer?

laurenparlett.com•42 days ago

I hate this timeline.

groinhammer.bsky.social•41 days ago

Small, desperate, or nefariously minded people hold up a single, often ridiculous idea in the face of all evidence against it, and it becomes dogma.

elifint.bsky.social•41 days ago

📌

sophiacbess.bsky.social•41 days ago

Can you speak to what follows from the likely scenario where pediatric Covid vaccines aren’t approved? EUA still stands for last year’s formula? But manufacturers unlikely to make new doses of that. So, in effect, kids <12 lose access?

lilrobinhood.bsky.social•41 days ago

He's going to doom us all. Welcome back to the dark ages, everyone...

notchog.bsky.social•42 days ago

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36177017/

thevaccinationstation.org•42 days ago

Journalists need to stop using language that makes scientists look weak. 'Flummoxed'? 'Befuddled'? No. Angered. Outraged. Infuriated.

diannelou.bsky.social•41 days ago

Kennedy is a moron.

Do not ever take that idiot's advice.

papeekaboo.bsky.social•41 days ago

Agreed, but tragically he's in charge

marycateismary.bsky.social•42 days ago

He may think, but does he have anything to back up his thoughts? That’s why I trust medical scientists over someone who thinks.

boblivion.bsky.social•42 days ago

Trofim Lysenko Jr. hath spoken.

crosscutanne.bsky.social•41 days ago

📌

hallinen.bsky.social•41 days ago

I wonder if Helen gets a sore throat from screaming in frustration every time she has to write about the idiots running health care in the U.S. these days. I’d be asking Sen Cassidy for comments regarding regret for every article on rfk. Rfk has never heard of epitopes I bet.

zolascola.bsky.social•42 days ago

What has he studied and been trained in that allows his beliefs to matter about this?

mathsnetty.bsky.social•42 days ago

pseudogriffin.bsky.social•42 days ago

he a lawyer. that's it. he knows how to litigate arguments, not prove facts of nature.

yardleyindivisible.bsky.social•42 days ago

God help us. He is such a jackass.

katetoolate.bsky.social•41 days ago

Would someone please explain to him that although SARS-COV-2/COVID enters the body via respiration, it is a vascular disease

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