Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign

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Source: NPR

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stopping a successful flu vaccination campaign that juxtaposed images of wild animals, such as a lion, with cute counterparts, like a kitten, as an analogy for how immunization can help tame the flu.

The news was shared with staff during a meeting on Wednesday, according to two CDC staffers who spoke with NPR on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, and a recording reviewed by NPR.

During the meeting, leadership at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases told CDC staff the Department of Health and Human Services had reviewed the campaign and advised that it would not continue.

The move comes during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first full week on the job as head of HHS.

Read more: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/02/19/npr-cdc-flu-vaccine-campaign-terminated

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More than 50,000 patients were admitted to hospitals for influenza during the week ending Feb. 8, the highest level in 15 years.

published Feb 19 5:39 PM

[JohnSJ]

1. Crossing fingers that everyone in this WH and the rethugs in Congress feel the same way about vaccines, and don't get

vaccinated.

[artemisia1]

3. No, most will quietly get vaccines just as they quietly and discreetly arrange abortions for their daughters when

necessary --- while preaching the opposite for the masses.

[JohnnyRingo]

2. Trump doesn't want to educate the American people.

It's called "job security".

[sheshe2]

4. He wants people to die.

[Blues Heron]

5. depraved nazi shit

the sooner we impeach these nazis the better

[LisaL]

6. Just as US is having a worse flu season in decades.

[Texin]

7. At what point will the pharmaceutical companies start denouncing TSF and his fuckstick

so-called HHS cabinet secretary for this blithering stupidity? Big pharma has been, for the most part, solidly behind rethugs historically, but this all out attack on the people and companies that have spent years developing vaccines and drug treatments to prevent and cure communicable diseases has got feel like a fucking betrayal at this point.

[The Wizard]

8. passive genocide (NT)

[IronLionZion]

9. Make America Sick and Stupid Again

[Attilatheblond]

10. Since they can't ship ALL of us off to reservations as was done to other groups,

they seem hell bent on just killing a lot of us off to get hold of 'their* land'

*the ultra rich