Trump administration cancels meeting on flu shots, fueling anti-vax concerns | Trump administration
the Trump administration He canceled a meeting of the scientific experts who were summoned to discuss influenza snapshots in the coming winter in a move that confirmed fears of emerging anti -vaccine policies under the new Minister of Health, Robert P. Kennedy Junior.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), supervised by Kennedy, has informed the members of the vaccine and the consulting committee for related biological products on Thursday that the meeting scheduled for March 13 was canceled without an explanation.
There has been no new date for a meeting and scientists warned that cancellation risks undermining the development of influenza vaccines for the next year.
The committee was scheduled to discuss the development of the appropriate vaccine to combat the prevailing influenza strains expected next year, using data provided by the world health The organization, from which the United States recently withdrew, and the centers of disease control and prevention (CDC).
Kennedy was criticizing the Center for Disease Control.
No prior notice was made that the meeting, which is held in late February or late March every year, was scheduled to be canceled.
“We all left trying to understand what is going on. Why was this meeting canceled? It is an important meeting. What is the influenza vaccine plan this year,” Paul Ofit, member of the committee and director of the vaccine education center at the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, CBS said.
Follow the cancellation another postponement CDC Advisers Committee On immunization practices last week.
Scientists say it takes about six months to produce vaccines that fit the expected influenza strains. flu Vaccines are generally released in September.
About 86 children and 19,000 adults died due to influenza in the United States this year, according to the numbers of the Disease Control Center, while 430,000 people were transferred to the hospital.
Kennedy, who attracted widespread criticism of his arid views, complained of “organizational capture”, claiming that the panels that regulate medicines and vaccines are captive to the drug industry. He pledged to clarify what he deems inconsistent with interests on government consulting paintings.
The Offit, which was invented by the Rotavirus vaccine was later developed by the MERCK pharmaceutical company and then granted the approval of the FDA. OFIT, in turn, was criticizing Kennedy, describing it Denial of science“Who constitutes his“ facts ”.
Kennedy He denied that the fight against the anxious In the last Senate confirmation session, his goal was to get more data.
