FDA meeting to choose flu vaccine composition canceled without explanation

FDA issues flu vaccine recommendations for 2025-26 season

The Food and Drug Administration has issued recommendations for the composition of influenza shots for the upcoming respiratory virus season, but without input from its independent vaccine advisers.

Government panel steps in after FDA cancels advisory meeting on flu shot recommendations

After the Food and Drug Administration abruptly canceled an advisory committee meeting tasked with recommending the composition of annual flu shots, a group of government doctors issued guidelines for vaccine makers.The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee was scheduled to meet on March 13 to discuss the composition of the 2025-26 flu shots. Traditionally, the committee meets each winter to issue recommendations on the fol…

Senators question FDA nominee on canceled flu shot meeting amid severe flu season

WA U.S. Senator Patty Murray and others expressed grave concerns over the FDA's decision to cancel a critical meeting amid the worst flu season in 15 years.

US Food and Drug Administration cancels advisory panel meeting on flu vaccines

The abrupt cancelation by the FDA of the vaccine advisory committee meeting to determine next flu season’s vaccine has potentially catastrophic public health implications.

FDA Vaccine Panel Meeting to Discuss Flu Shot Is Canceled

The Trump administration canceled a planned FDA meeting of the federal vaccine advisory committee next month that was set to determine the composition of next season’s flu shots. It’s the second canceled vaccine panel meeting since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became health and human services secretary. Click here to see our interview with a pediatrician in Texas, where there’s a measles outbreak.

Flu Vaccine Not Only Ineffective But INCREASES Risk

FDA Calls Off Meeting to Select Flu Strains for Next Season’s Flu Vaccine Biologist Christina Parks, Ph.D. (@drCParks1 ), said it is “time to stop pretending the flu vaccine is effective.” “The extremely low efficacy of flu vaccines call into question whether they should keep being offered at all. “Studies have shown that receipt of flu vaccines over multiple years actually increases your risk of contracting a severe case of the flu and ending u…