Despite this being the worst flu season in 15 years, President Donald Trump's administration has abruptly cancelled a critical meeting that infectious disease experts were counting on to make sure the latest flu vaccine is the strongest.
'God help us all': Infectious disease experts panic after Trump FDA cancels vaccine meeting
https://www.alternet.org/disease-experts-panic/
21 Comments
Today@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 1y
Once again they show that they're really only pro-birth.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 1y
To be fair, they are also pro-death.
pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
They just want to make sure you're fully aware of your death before you get to perish 😊
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
They are pro circle of life
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 1y
Not really, they are more like “forced-birth”.
cogman@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 1y
These will be the meetings to kick off creating the next season's flu vaccines. The R&D that goes into these each years requires a fair bit of lead time.
I doubt RFK's FDA is going to approve another vaccine so let's buckle up for the next 4 years. Time to say goodbye to the older folk in your life. They are particularly negatively affected by the flu.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y
And this is at a time when Bird Flu is raging in US farms unchecked. The conditions are perfect for a major flu pandemic.
This isn't just about seasonal flu, there is a slowly unfolding crisis that could lead to a deadly flu pandemic. It will be pot luck how deadly bird flu is, but it has been incredibly deadly in birds. It had not been deadly in cattle yet - but it could just take 1 mutation to become so. And the farms are also a perfect incubator for it to transfer into humans.
With Trump and Musk disassembling public health infrastructure we are less likely to stop a pandemic, less likely to detect it when it gets going, less likely to contain it and now less likely to be able to vaccinate to save lives.
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz · 10 pts · 1y
Disease isn’t contained by borders so - ‘Thanks’ from the rest of the world.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y
We can smuggle needed medicines into the US if needed. This might mean they are expensive but worth it for the immunocompromised.
Zier@fedia.io · 43 pts · 1y
Reminder: he was going to let us all die when Covid hit. It was nothing, it was going away in a few days, it's just a cold. Why would you get on a double decker bus when the driver is drunk as fuck and snorting coke off the horn? People voted for this bus crash.
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
What music is he listening to? That might be some primo stuff! /s
Zier@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y
Slow jazz.
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Fsck it, I’m in.
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 1y
Straight up out to ruin the country and kill children, and the country is pretty much ruined.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 1y
Snapz@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
This piece of shit has a family with the means to stop him. If he hadc survived,RFK himself would be so fucking embarrassed to see what this absolute wad has become
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
stevegiblets@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Cannot wait to call this the trump flu
Damage@feddit.it · 5 pts · 1y
"God helps those who help themselves"
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Isn't this what you wanted?
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
If only something that could help prevent getting this disease existed, you know, like a vaccine. Unfortunately it doesn't exist so we can only pray God to save us /s
Maggoty@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Don't Look Up
irish_link@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Are the people hourly or salary? Even if salary I am sure there are ways to take a day off from work.
All that needs to happen is for these people to take a day off or meet on the off hours that they are not being paid and publish it themselves. I am sure there will be retribution but its also possible that legally they can provide a solution to prevent an even worse flue season next year.