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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe now know how RFK is going to take our vaccines away
Here is the playbook, laid out in this article. They won't stop at Covid. They will trap companies in an endless loop of clinical trials that are not necessary until, I assume, they just give up because they know there is no finish line to the race.
I hope Novovax sues and helps stop this madness before it spreads.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/fda-scrutiny-novavax-covid-19-vaccine-sparks-uncertainty-121256091
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration's effort to impose new requirements on Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine the nation's only traditional protein-based option for the coronavirus is sowing uncertainty about updates to other vaccines, too.
Novavax said Monday that the Food and Drug Administration was asking the company to run a new clinical trial of its vaccine after the agency grants full approval. The company said it had responded and that it believed its shot remains approvable.
But a weekend post on social media by FDA Commissioner Marty Makary suggested the prospect of needing a new trial before the shots' yearly strain update something unlikely to be possible before fall. That's raised questions about whether other vaccines will be caught in the turmoil.
I dont think because theres a strain change that this is a new product, said Dr. Jesse Goodman of Georgetown University, a former FDA vaccine chief. If thats the new policy, youd always be doing clinical trials and youd never have a vaccine that was up to date.
newdeal2
(5,608 posts)Why not bring back Covid to go along with it? MAGA voted to bring us back to 2020.
spooky3
(38,866 posts)I still have a little redness from mine last week but glad to have it.
Crunchy Frog
(28,299 posts)Unexpectedly.
I took her to a doctor's appointment and they said she could get one right in the office. Then they said I could get one in the pharmacy in the building, so we're both set.
I had a bad reaction to mine though. Spent two days in bed feeling like I had a mini covid case. But I hopefully should have good immunity from it.
Silent Type
(12,412 posts)if the MFers arent interested in preventing disease, death, etc.
LS0999
(284 posts)This regime needs to be stopped. The states need to stand up and resist.
Initech
(109,267 posts)Crunchy Frog
(28,299 posts)Any virus that mutates extremely rapidly and hence requires frequent updated formulations for the vaccine.
no_hypocrisy
(55,380 posts)no vaccine!!
People have already died from the Bird Flu.
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