FDA Won't Review New mRNA Flu Vaccine

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FDA Won’t Review New mRNA Flu Vaccine

February 10, 2026 at 7:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 101 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/02/10/fda-wont-review-new-mrna-flu-vaccine/

“The FDA has refused to accept an application from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, in another setback for the technology that’s been a target of some Trump administration health officials,” CNN reports.

Applegrove: you know I thought than when it came out George W. Bush cancelled mRNA studies it was a mistake of the administration. Thus mRNA was studied elsewhere and was ready to save millions of lives during COVID. Now I'm not so sure it was a 'mistake' of the George W. Bush Administration. Or the smoking lobby: they sure did fight hard to deny that smoking kills and had help from Republicans. Maybe conservatives have wanted fewer Americans on Medicare and Social Security for 50 - 60 years?

[cachukis]

1. JFC!

[vapor2]

2. They are trying to kill us.....literally

[applegrove]

3. Let people die.

[FoxNewsSucks]

4. damn, how I wish I'd been born in Canada, or Australia

or Europe.

[applegrove]

5. It could have happened anywhere. We have evil people

in Canada too. I'm so sorry you are cutting your losses and cutting your losses. I have been so impressed by the Americans I've met on the DU and elsewhere in the last 20 years. You are great good eggs and wicked smart. If the Southern US had the civil society of the northern and blue states this never would have happened. People immigrating to the West to make their fortune would have gone to the US if they were aggressive at all as you are the best and also the baddest (slavery). So you ended up with more aggressive people who are now MAGA. But you also have the smartest people too who are fully activated now. You'll get through this I believe more now than ever. When you are going through hell keep going. (((Hugs)))

P.S. we had the same ridiculous cigarette laws as you until the 2000s. We all have bad stuff in our national pasts. Yours just caught up with you.

[BlueNProud]

6. CNN simping "another setback for the technology"

Another setback for Americans hoping to not get ill.

[DavidDvorkin]

7. Evil, crazy, and stupid, all at once.

[RussBLib]

8. mRNA research is incredibly promising

....why disable it? Does it just boil down to distrust in the technology? Distrust in the government? Did mRNA offend Orange Piggy somehow somewhere? Is there some nefarious company out there bribing Trump to kill mRNA in the US so they can exploit it instead of any US companies?

Half of the shit Trump pulls does not make a lot of sense, unless you think he is intent on destabilizing and destroying America.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. MaddowBlog-FDA's refusal to review Moderna flu vaccine generates immediate political backlash

While the Trump administration focuses on a deworming medication as a possible cancer cure, it’s taking a different approach to a potential flu vaccine.

FDA’s refusal to review Moderna flu vaccine generates immediate political backlash While the Trump administration focuses on a deworming medication as a possible cancer cure, it’s taking a diff...

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— Cancer-Vaccine (@cancer-vaccine.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy) 2026-02-11T14:55:00.000Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/fdas-refusal-to-review-moderna-flu-vaccine-generates-immediate-political-backlash

It was almost five years ago that the Food and Drug Administration published a curious missive to social media, which may have left some people confused. “You are not a horse,” the FDA said in a now-deleted tweet. “You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”

Ordinarily, the FDA wouldn’t have to remind people that they’re not livestock, but it became necessary for an unfortunate reason: An alarming number of people were trying to treat Covid-19 by voluntarily taking a medicine known as ivermectin, which is generally a deworming medication intended for horses and cows.....

Making matters spectacularly worse, while the Trump administration takes seriously the idea that a livestock deworming medication might cure cancer, the same administration is taking a very different approach to a potential vaccine for influenza. The New York Times reported:

The vaccine maker Moderna said on Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration had notified the company that the agency would not review its mRNA flu vaccine, the latest sign of federal health policy that has become hostile to vaccine development.

Dr. Vinay Prasad, the agency’s top vaccine regulator, rejected the company’s application for approval over a concern that Moderna’s clinical trial had compared its experimental vaccine against a product the agency did not consider the best on the market. People in the comparison group received Fluarix Quadrivalent, a flu vaccine sold by GSK.

The Times’ report added that Moderna had spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars testing its flu vaccine. Evidently, the Trump administration doesn’t care.....

Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington wrote online on Tuesday night that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “is now blocking an updated flu vaccine for no reason grounded in science. American vaccine policy has been hijacked by a conspiracy theorist — yet most Republicans are happy to just sit on their hands. They are allowing FDA policy to be dictated by DELUSION.”

Murray, in a message directed at Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who chairs the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, added, “If I were the Chair of the Senate HELP Committee, I would have moved to subpoena RFK Jr. a LONG time ago, but the next best time is NOW. [Cassidy], what happened to those quarterly oversight hearings? You and I both know it’s well past time for Congress to step in.”

Cassidy has not yet responded. Watch this space