NBC News: An FDA vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for March to select the strains to be included in next season's flu shot has been canceled.
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If the Trump administration wants America to become "Healthy Again" this is not the way to do it. The flu kills 10's of thousands of people a year. This is just ridiculous and immoral.
F*ck every voter who voted for Biden then stayed home for Harris. F*ck every person who simply opts out of voting. F*ck every person who doesn’t fact check and is willfully ignorant. F*ck MAGA voters and f*ck fElon! F*ck McConnell and the GOP for getting us here.
As long as one has the re$ource$, one will have access to vaccines. If not Can, then Mex or EU, etc.
Perhaps the pharmas will continue development but unless insurance covers it, vaccines will be out of pocket.
The elected Dems should gather up the 21 DOGE staffers that resigned, get the media and start asking ?’s. If the GOP blocks it in the Senate, then rent a venue somewhere. I think if they could start dropping some bombshells about whats really going on then maybe we could get the tide to turn.
Of course it has. They chose a brain-damaged vaccine denier with ZERO experience in Medicine to "head" HHS. Like ALL other Depts. The total and absolute chaos is a hairs breath away. The one that will end in a catastrophe. I pray it won't be so.
welcome to the club, switched careers & became an activist at the end of the raygun presidency but find myself surrounded by keyboard warriors at the finish line decades late.
i'm out of patience for citizens who didn't do shit for 4 decades but wwwhine after the finish line.
This is really terrible! They actually seem to want us to be sick and at the same time want to take away healthcare! Why is the government wanting to hurt us??
Of course it has...who cares about the possible severe strains of flu coming...i mean the addict in charge dismissed the major measles outbreak occuring, even lying about how many cases there are, and didnt even seem disturbed a child died. His lies have killed people & the parents are culpable
Bad enough that the US has scrapped bird flu (HPAI A/H5N1) monitoring, and is dropping the ball on emergent zoonotic hemorrrhagic viruses, AND the still-mutating SARS-CoV2 virus, but now, to even scrap our preparedness for seasonal influenza!
This is not just idiotic and suicidal. It's MURDER!!
Is the reason for this a) because they think that medicine disproportionately helps non-white minorities, or b) because Musk thinks that AIs are more efficient than humans?
Observationally, a lot of those who are anti-vax have a variety of psychological issues that lead them to fall into believing wild conspiracy theories.
Johnson soon began sharing what she had learned with others. “I had a decent following online. People were coming to me and listening to what I was sharing on the internet,” says Johnson, who remembers feeling a kind of “dopamine rush” when talking to other moms about vaccine “risks”.
It's all conspiracy based. "They're poisons!" "They are trying to contol us!" "It's filled with microchips!"
We conclude that endorsement of anti-vaccination arguments meaningfully dovetails with attitude roots clustering around anti-scientific beliefs and partisan ideologies
Really hard to hit the heart on this.
My son has 6 other guys in his dorm room. (Yes, 7 in one room.) 2 of them plus my son got the flu shot.
4 got the flu with symptoms bad enough to put them in the infirmary. 1 was there for a full week. He was very ill. The vaccination made ALL the difference!
Are Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins happy now? They said RFK Jr swore to keep vaccines available for those who want them. So he lied. There should be some kind of repercussion for that lying, given that this is life and death.
As an elderly man, who tends to be immunocompromised, I guess I’ll be staying indoors next winter getting groceries delivered and not venturing outside.
Does RFKjr really think we don’t need to guess which strain will be prevalent and prepare for it now? Like his “boss” he’s a moron.
This is the Keep us sick portion of Keep us poor, keep us ignorant, and make us work till we die. Thank you American oligarchy. Just remember, your compounds won’t save you when the shit hits the fan.
This regime is Darwinian. They are happy to cull (kill) the sick and the poor while they further enrich the wealthy.
Disgust isn't a strong enough word.
OK. So, they estimate that he killed 200,000 to 500,000 people with his inept handling of Covid. How many will die now from the flu or the pneumonia caused by it? #FluDeaths
Without the FDA Vaccine Advisory Meeting this spring and Kennedy’s anti-vax positions, are organizations like AARP contacting the gov to see if a shot will even BE available this fall?
This admin HATES the elderly, the infirm, the poor and POC. They live in a Malthusian fever dream where they think that letting disease, hunger, natural disasters and poverty kill millions is a solution to the world's problems that won't affect profits. They are insane.
Yes, they are. Therein lies their vulnerability.
The questions are…who comes to the rescue, when, and what will the final toll be. What arises out of the ashes, if anything.
This is our existential moment.
So why does it have to be an FDA committee? Can't the companies that produce the vaccines get together to determine what strains needs to be addressed next year, skipping the FDA totally?
Agree. I suspect these meetings will still happen. Those that dedicate their lives to preventing illness will not stop doing their good work. But... how will approvals work? And oversight FDA provided will be missing which is yet another concern.
FDA scientists work with scientists throughout the world under the auspices of WHO to formulate next yrs flu vaccine. FDA scientists not allowed to join is a huge missing piece.
While cry-baby-tariff Trump is threatening the world with economic sanctions (that's what tariffs are), Europe has signed new trade deals with Canada and India.
In the meantime, the US has distanced itself from Canada, the EU, and Mexico and insulted the rest of the world (slight exaggeration).
Ok Susan Collins - once again, we all warned you….. How can you be so blind and spineless?! And how about the other Republicans?! Is this taking care of your voters when they have no flu vaccine next winter?
Why do they have a Senate Confirmation Hearings? The nominees lie because there are no consequences, I don't see why they bother. RFK Jr said he would not interfere in the current vaccination process and did just that at the 1st opportunity.
Let the culling of the herd begin.
‘Grinding up the most vulnerable of us (and the most vocal) for biofuel might be a bit harsh from a PR standpoint.’
Paraphrasing Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug.
can America handle multiple pandemics at the same time? would more than 50% die of diseases that could have been spared.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U02uJ5tm7WE
The same people canceling will make sure they are vaccinated with vaccines they import from nefarious characters (like Putin getting Covid vaccine from PT Barnum) while the rest of us that WANT to get vaccinated will have to self-quarantine if we want to feel safe. No more social interaction.
What can we do about this? Is anything being done? Why isn't this blasted across the media? I work in healthcare, people are going to get deadly sick and die. Our hospitals won't be able to accommodate this, healthcare workers will be too sick to work
AZ and other pharma use WHOs recommendations for the Flu strains since we produce vaccines for the entire world. The vaccines will get made, but they won't be approved for US distribution with no FDA involved :(
The Trump administration is responsible for hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths last time. We’ll see those as rookie numbers by the time we’re through this.
They're hoping for POC, DEI's, and women. But it's
also killing or will kill those little and old white guys too.
Their aim is bad. Too bad so sad. 🤷🏼♀️
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https://murphy.house.gov/doctors-caucus
Fuck them both.
Perhaps the pharmas will continue development but unless insurance covers it, vaccines will be out of pocket.
With the upcoming tariffs, why should they leave it open?
Trump’s playing 13th dimension chess again.
Perhaps he has measles?
We're all gonna die
Stupidity doesn't make it involuntary, after all.
i'm out of patience for citizens who didn't do shit for 4 decades but wwwhine after the finish line.
merely a PSA heads up
This is not just idiotic and suicidal. It's MURDER!!
We conclude that endorsement of anti-vaccination arguments meaningfully dovetails with attitude roots clustering around anti-scientific beliefs and partisan ideologies
"We need to see pain in the economy,"
-Tim Gurner
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66803279
This will surely knock a few people off the Social Security rolls
My son has 6 other guys in his dorm room. (Yes, 7 in one room.) 2 of them plus my son got the flu shot.
4 got the flu with symptoms bad enough to put them in the infirmary. 1 was there for a full week. He was very ill. The vaccination made ALL the difference!
Does RFKjr really think we don’t need to guess which strain will be prevalent and prepare for it now? Like his “boss” he’s a moron.
Son of a bitch 😖🤦🏻♀️😖🤦🏻♀️😖🤦🏻♀️😖
This entire administration is.
Just replace Measles with the Flu.
Disgust isn't a strong enough word.
wenn es die ersten Toten wg. dem durch Trump verschlechterndem Gesundheitssystem gibt ...
Oh. just kids coding in the hospital from the flu
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/01/flu-season-children-hospitalized/
Very severe
The questions are…who comes to the rescue, when, and what will the final toll be. What arises out of the ashes, if anything.
This is our existential moment.
Bootstraps on the availability.
Say Pfizer decides it’s too costly to include all recommended strains, so it decides to risk public health for a higher profit margin
We can’t keep privatizing the public realm
In the meantime, the US has distanced itself from Canada, the EU, and Mexico and insulted the rest of the world (slight exaggeration).
‘Grinding up the most vulnerable of us (and the most vocal) for biofuel might be a bit harsh from a PR standpoint.’
Paraphrasing Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug.
THE FLU SHOT
IS LATE
ITS MADE
FROM EGGS
EGGS
IN AN AVIAN FLU YEAR
IF HE RESCHEDULED
TODAY
HES LATE
"Anti-Health worm-brain RFK" is to blame.
Brace for new Pandemics.
"STUPID IS, AS STUPIDER DOES"
Goddamn this mother fucker.
Idiots.
Time to warm up the chant:
Hey, hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?
They're trying to end it so they don't have to repay it!
also killing or will kill those little and old white guys too.
Their aim is bad. Too bad so sad. 🤷🏼♀️
Malignant narcissists gonna do malignant narcissism 🤷🏻♀️