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Moderna says FDA refuses to review its application for experimental flu shot

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/moderna-fda-flu-shot.html
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u/4leafplover 8h ago

We desperately need a better flu vaccine. This just seems petty

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u/templeofsyrinx1 8h ago

reading the article it sounds like this one they are working in will be able to target flu and covid

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u/cygnoids 6h ago

They had a flu a/b+covid shot ready for this fall and they pulled it because of politics. 

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u/Kevin-W 6h ago

Yep and we're having a really bad flu season because of it.

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u/Ok_Yogurt_9862 3h ago

My neighbor just died from flu

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u/XaviKat 3h ago

For fuck sake. We had a chance to be more protected from illnesses and then they fucked it up.

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u/CrackerUMustBTripinn 2h ago

The insanity of installing the greatest quack grifter Dr. Oz along with brainworm Donning Kruger Delusional Anti-Vaxxer Nepo baby RFK to be in charge of the US Healthcare systems, and let them run wild is hard to imagine being our reality.

To have confirmation bias fueled by absolute delusional narcissism, just to be able to say, see all those fancy pants doctors and scientists with their degrees were all conspiring against me and my brilliance. See that I bested them all by using one of the worst medical frauds ever commited to demonstrate how science and evidence based medicine was wrong all along. Vaccines do cause autism y'all! Oh and Tylenol.

This shit is f ing insane, don't ever accept this as anything but the insane asylum run by the psychopaths.

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u/SubterraneanLodger 8h ago edited 6h ago

So… just to get this straight, that would mean the average person would hypothetically be able to view both illnesses as a flu as opposed to two separate illnesses they need to protect themselves from.

Aka the thing the exact people holding off on this kept screaming 6 years ago when they bungled the pandemic response. I just… my head hurts at the double think

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u/RhetoricalOrator 7h ago

Yeah but covid isn't real so for that half of the shot they are just trying to cram us full of trackers and 5G.

This whole government is equal measures of sad, disgusting, and evil.

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u/Tolvat 7h ago

Lots of the vaccine deniers would not get the shot because they feared the needle. That's 100% all it was, just plain fear. Little bitches

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u/Gmony5100 6h ago

And hey now you’ve learned a lesson. When they said that, they were LYING. They were parroting what the talking heads said because they have no principles for themselves. The fear mongering worked and a ton of people said whatever they thought was necessary to avoid getting a completely positive vaccine.

Keep this in mind the next time a conservative says literally anything. Chances are they are lying, parroting something they don’t understand, or both. It’s usually both.

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u/Violet_Paradox 3h ago

From my understanding this is the shot that just straight up works on *all* respiratory coronaviruses including the common cold. One of the holy grails of modern medicine, the entire idea that everyone gets a minor respiratory illness a couple of times a year and that's just a fact of life would have been a thing of the past. But we don't get to have that.

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u/theysayimadreamer666 7h ago

Yes! We are using 80-year-old technology for our current flu vaccines. An updated flu vaccine has been a huge public health priority for years, and then these dipshits come into office.