FDA Cancels Vaccine Advisory Meeting for Choosing Flu Strains for Next Season’s Shots

A Crucial March Meeting of Vaccine Advisors to the Food and Drug Administration has been canceled without explanation, a member of the Advisory Panel Told CNBC on Wednsday.

The meeting of the Vaccines and related biological products Advisory CommitteeOR VRBPAC, is help every March to select flu strains for shoots related in the upcoming fall and winter.

But Dr. Paul offit, a member of that panel, told cnbc that he received an email at 4:18 PM Et on Wednsday Saying that the upcoming March 13 meeting is canceled. He said there was no indication of whether it will be rescued.

“Who canceled this meeting? Why did they cancel the meeting? Offit Told CNBC.

The department of health and human services did not immomedialy respond to a request for comment.

The canceled meeting comes as robert f. kennedy jr., who now leads hhs, makes Early movies that could affect vaccination uptake And policy in the US kennedy has a lengthy track record of being a vaccine skeptic.

It also comes amid a particular brutal flu season in the US CDC data shows the flu has caused up to an estimated 910,000 hospitalizations since October, which puts the season on track to be the most set aTast a decade.

Earlier this month, a separete meeting of advisors who help the centers for disease for disease forms, recommendations for vaccines for vaccines was postponed to “Accommodate Public Comment in Advance of the Meeting,” outlets ReportedIt is also unplear if that meet will be rescued.

Kennedy also said last week that he will review the childhood vaccine schedule despite earlier pledges not to do so. He promised that a new “make america healthy against” commission would investate vaccines, pesticides and antidepressants to see if they have contributed to a rain of chronic event in the us

Meanwhile, The Trump Administration is Weighting Funding for Moderna’s Bird Flu Vaccine, Bloomberg Reported on Wednsday.

The country is grappling with a record-splitting bird flu out Its rapid spread in animals has raised Concerns about broader spread to humans. “