FDA canceled vaccine consulting meetings for the selection of flu vaccinations
FileToto: The headquarters of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can be seen in Silver Spring, Maryland, November 4, 2009.
Jason Reed | Reuters
A decisive March meeting of vaccine advisors at Food and Drug Administration was canceled without explanation, a member of the advisory committee told CNBC on Wednesday.
The meeting of vaccines and related biological products for consulting committee (VRBPAC) takes place every March to select flu strains for recordings that were published in the coming autumn and winter.
Dr. Paul Offit, a member of this committee, told CNBC that on Wednesday at 4:18 p.m. ET he received an e -mail that the upcoming meeting was canceled on March 13th. He said there was no indication of whether it would be planned.
“Who canceled this meeting? Why have you canceled the meeting? Will the manufacturers now turn to the World Health Organization to determine the tribes for this year’s influenza vaccines?” Offit said CNBC.
The Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
The canceled meeting comes when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now heading HHS, takes on early movements that could influence the vaccination and the guideline in the United States in the United States, has a long track record of being a vaccine skeptic.
It also comes in the middle of a particularly brutal flu season in the US CDC data that the flu has caused 910,000 hospital stays since October, which is most serious in at least one decade.
At the beginning of this month, a separate meeting of consultants who help the centers for the control and prevention of diseases made recommendations for vaccines. It is also unclear whether this meeting is postponed.
Kennedy also said last week that he was checked the children’s vaccination plan for children, although earlier commitments would not do so. He promised that a new commission “Make America Healthy Healthy” would examine vaccines, pesticides and antidepressants to see whether they contributed to an increase in chronic illnesses in the USA
In the meantime, the Trump administration weighs the financing of the Modernas Vogel flu -vaccine, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
The country is composed of a record outbreak of bird flu, which affects dozens of cattle herds together with herds of poultry and which drive up the prices for eggs. Its rapid spread of animals has expressed concerns about the broader spread of man. “
