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.
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.