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davelevitan.bsky.social • 10 days ago

This is just impossibly grim

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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thecyberchill.bsky.social•10 days ago

The potential for another medical crisis is entirely due to this administrations inaction and lack of seriousness towards the issue of public health, This is not good.

Enriching themselves is this administrations only concern it seems, like most corporate "efficiency" programs.

davelevitan.bsky.social•10 days ago

The cancellation may be related to the restrictions on posting to the Federal Register, which is required for meetings like this and per one source may be starting to ease. So…

marontheweb.bsky.social•10 days ago

Wwhattttttt??

jillehughes.bsky.social•10 days ago

The Federal Register should never be restricted.

strummer7.bsky.social•10 days ago

Are the restrictions specifically related to NIH notice publications?

jmeijers.bsky.social•10 days ago

It’s almost as if the Trump admin is openly attempting to kill off a major demographic of his voting block.

therealspartacus.bsky.social•10 days ago

The first Trump
admin was thrilled in the early days of Covid that it seemed to be killing off people in blue cities, which is why they decided to let it rip.

andrewliu.bsky.social•10 days ago

This is a horrible way to find out we weren’t checking what’s happening with southern hemisphere winter flu to infer what we’ll get for northern hemisphere winter flu.