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.
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