Moderna said it had held further discussions with regulators and announced that the agency would accept the company’s application for approval of its flu vaccine that uses mRNA technology.
What this doesn’t do is create the stable regulatory environment which is needed for companies to invest the hundreds of millions of dollars it costs to show that other new vaccines worth. Stuff like the Epstein-Barr virus vaccine will likely never become available, and we’ll never know if it’s possible to prevent Parkinson’s with a vaccine.
This administration’s FDA!? I could give a shit what partisan, political conclusion they come to…
I mean, you probably should give a shit, if you’re at all interested in being able to get this vaccine. Moderna can’t bring it to market without the FDA’s approval.
Under a typical administration - say a Biden or a Kamala administration, this would have been a scandal of epic proportions and people would have been fucking fired over it.
Under this three ring circus, it’s just one of many, many issues and this kind of fuckery is expected of Republicans, because, well, they are Republicans; it’s not like they have any agency here or anything. They just do things. Terrible things. Usually the awful things they do are the fault of the Democrats, though. Because Murc’s Law and reactionary centrism.
They probably only reversed course because this went public and people didn’t react very well to it. But this is no way to run an agency.
So, Moderna paid the bribe. K.
I think it’s the opposite. Last i saw they threatened to pull all R&D for the US, which would have been a major financial hit here, so the Government is caving due to financial pressure… aka one of the few things that still elicits a reaction around here.
Well corruption is a safe assumption with this admin, I’m not really knowledgeable on Moderna business dealings these days but could definitely see it playing out this way instead. Thanks for the insight.
That or this is just performative so they can deny it anyway.
Let me guess, those “further discussion” involved certain well-fed envelopes?
This is, in fact, the opposite of a stable regulatory environment.
Oh thank you for doing what you’re supposed to do.
They’re supposed to act like lunatics? I don’t recall that from past administrations.
They can still reject the application. This just means they will go through the motions of looking at it first.
Don’t be so sure that the results will be aligned with that line of thinking.
If they accept another vaccine that works similarly to the covid one, they are too close to admitting that the covid vaccine was safe and effective like it was. It’s a political conspiracy theory with no basis in reality, but it’s what they fervently believe as fact.
Even prior to this administration the FDA wasn’t always doing the right thing. Some approvals never should happen. There was a alzheimer’s drug that comes to mind back around 2019-2020 that many, many doctors believed was a sham yet it got an approval. I googled it, and the drug I was thinking of was Aducanumab. Biogen pulled it themselves in 2024. It’s not the only example, but it’s a good one.
Anywho, now that the FDA is aligned with beliefs and faith based healthcare, the chances that they do the right thing is exceedingly low. Can’t argue with faith.
Most of the staff at the FDA are guys looking to leave the FDA and move in to the private sector. They’ll hand waive it through without much review.
Even if they weren’t, they’re so under staffed that they won’t have time to do much research anyway.
See: Vioxx
Brain worms.
