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Summary

The FDA canceled its March meeting to select flu strains for next season’s vaccine without explanation, raising concerns among health experts.

The annual meeting is important for updating flu shots, ensuring they are effective against evolving strains.

The cancellation follows a postponed CDC vaccine meeting and comes amid a severe flu season with 19,000 adult and 86 pediatric deaths.

The WHO will still hold its strain selection meeting, but U.S. officials have limited engagement due to Trump’s WHO withdrawal order.

Concerns grow over HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s influence on vaccine policy.

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[–] THB@lemmy.world 55 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Concerns grow? Shouldn't we be at the outrage stage by now?

[–] Hellinabucket@lemmy.world 38 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We should be PAST the outrage stage by now.. but we're not, and we're not going to be until it's to late, than everyone will act horrified and say 'if only we had known, we would have stopped it.'

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago

We should be at the "infighting to decide who will take power after taking everyone previously in power to the guillotine" stage.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

It is long past time for torches and pitchforks.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago

People really don’t get that trump works for Putin, and his job is to fucking destroy us?

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

LOL. We're going to die stupidly.

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm hoping for the asteroid

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Last I heard, best we can hope for is it hits the moon

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That would stir some shit up though. Maybe a large chunk would be pulled to earth and be worse!

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago

Not too likely, I was watching Anton Petrov yesterday about this, we can keep up the happy thoughts tho ;)

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

People are going to die. Given that many older people vote Republican, this could affect future elections, if there are any.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 31 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That's what I thought would happen with COVID, but it doesn't appear to have affected demographics by that much.

Plus there's a scary amount of young people that are somehow feeling into this right wing rabbit hole.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There was a strong emphasis on masks/isolation/hand washing for COVID that you generally don't see for the flu. We've had flu vaccines for so long that a lot of people don't realize how serious it can be for the elderly. They may find out the hard way.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

People tend to think that the flu is a bad cold, not realizing that even healthy people can be laid up for 2 weeks at a time.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

oh it DID affect the election, but the problem was a whole lot of radicalized Gen-Zers who listen to Dan Savage and such swung to the right all of a sudden. basically the effect of the elder deaths was nullified.

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Remember when they said it would be OUR choice to make regarding this stuff?

[–] danski@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Your choice to make your own vaccine in your personal lab with scientists you employ.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

This is our money! We pay taxes for this shit. And at this point I feel we are being taxed without representation! It's time for another Independence Day!

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

We can vote with our money...by pooling all our our spare dimes to create our own world health science lab with blackjack and hookers. (This is sarcasm.)

Please be extra cautious this year everyone.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Right then. Vaccine trip to Canada next year.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

On Friday, a World Health Organization advisory committee is scheduled to meet on which strains should be included in the next flu vaccines in the Northern Hemisphere. That meeting typically influences the FDA’s strain selection.

The quick cancellation of the meeting might have some downstream effects on strain selection. I'm really hoping this won't affect Canada.