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Takket

(22,955 posts)
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 10:01 PM Monday

We 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 don’t think because there’s a strain change that this is a new product,” said Dr. Jesse Goodman of Georgetown University, a former FDA vaccine chief. If that’s the new policy, “you’d always be doing clinical trials and you’d never have a vaccine that was up to date.”

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newdeal2

(2,412 posts)
1. We will have supply chain shortages soon
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 10:05 PM
Monday

Why not bring back Covid to go along with it? MAGA voted to bring us back to 2020.

spooky3

(37,423 posts)
2. DUers, please consider getting your COVID booster now.
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 10:38 PM
Monday

I still have a little redness from mine last week but glad to have it.

Crunchy Frog

(27,579 posts)
7. My mom and I just got ours on Thursday.
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 02:22 AM
Tuesday

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

(9,153 posts)
3. I bet drug companies, medical schools, doctors, patients, insurers, everyone sues. Vaccines save lots of money, even
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 10:40 PM
Monday

if the MFers aren’t interested in preventing disease, death, etc.

LS0999

(166 posts)
4. I am completely convinced that this terrorist coup is trying to kill us
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 01:27 AM
Tuesday

This regime needs to be stopped. The states need to stand up and resist.

Initech

(104,639 posts)
5. I'd rather just take RFK Jr away and throw him in prison for the rest of his miserable, worthless life.
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 01:29 AM
Tuesday

Crunchy Frog

(27,579 posts)
6. Yep. That's the way to get rid of Covid and Flu vaccines.
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 02:16 AM
Tuesday

Any virus that mutates extremely rapidly and hence requires frequent updated formulations for the vaccine.

no_hypocrisy

(51,378 posts)
8. And when the Bird Flu jumps from animals to humans . . . . .
Tue Apr 29, 2025, 05:27 AM
Tuesday

no vaccine!!

People have already died from the Bird Flu.

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