flu-vaccine
3 stories tagged "flu-vaccine"
Investigations
The CDC's Flu-Shot Effectiveness Figures Come Out of a Regression Model, Not a Trial
The CDC's 41 percent flu-shot figure for seniors comes from a regression run on sick clinic patients, and the study's own tables show timing, exclusion and healthy-vaccinee biases built into it.
Drugs & FDAThe FDA Approved Moderna's mRNA Flu Shot for Seniors Without Proving It Works in Them
In February the FDA's own vaccine chief refused to even review it. One week later the agency reversed course, and the trial data never changed.
Drugs & FDAThe FDA Said No to Moderna's mRNA Flu Shot in February. By August, the Two Men Who Said No Were Gone.
The FDA refused to even review Moderna's mRNA flu shot in February because it was never tested against the enhanced vaccines seniors are steered toward. The two officials who objected are gone, and the agency approved it anyway, for the oldest patients, on a promise to prove it works later.