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US cancels more than $700 million funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine
(www.reuters.com)
Same week FDA stopped recommending covid vaccine to children and pregnant women. RFK really isn't beating the anti-vaxx allegations.
I thought they went beyond simply not recommending and went to straight-up restricting it for those under 65. That said, I think it will still be available to those with "underlying conditions" which is pretty broad (and includes pregnancy) from what I understand, so I'm hoping that will still allow many people to access the vaccines.
One of the vaccine-eligible conditions is depression. Seeing vaccines being chipped away like this sure has made me depressed as of late.
I'm going to side-eye anyone who doesn't feel at least a little depressed these days.
Still plenty of people saying “it’s only 4 years”.
I am not a yank and am unfamiliar with the health system customs of The Burger Reich, but if I am not mistaken it just means that insurance companies won't cover the covid shot since the FDA no longer "recommends" it. You can probably still get the shot but would just have to pay out of pocket? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
This is still unconscionable of course, and disproportionately affects the disadvantaged, but I don't think they made it illegal or anything (yet) ?
Bit of a distinction without a difference, depending on the cost
Also you can lie about those broad conditions
I figured as much—it's not like the pharmacist is gonna ask every person for their medical records
At this point, the ruling class aren't really beating the "Nurgle worshipers" allegations either.
Slandering Nurgle's good name
At least nurgle worshippers seem happy about it.
that’s okay. we don’t need to be alive anyway.
they are doing eugenics
They're gonna let 'er rip. stock up on well-fitting n95s.
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They do. If its not going to be bird flu another covid pandemic will suffice. Its to get rid of the excess population, replace them with AI and reduce social welfare spending.
Reduce excess populace? Then why the forced birtherism?
young fresh people for war.
undesirables in graves.
covid kills the compromised, old, and unsupported the most.
never learned what the Nazis did in WW2?
The tendency of capitalism is to extract as much surplus value as possible, such as through intensification of labor, lengthening of the work day, reducing the number of economically unproductive years... Ideology promoting more babies, more child labor, less disabled people, and less retirees is the result of this system.
They want us to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps but for everything. Education, health, etc
I want to pair that with another story from today: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/world/canada/ostriches-avian-flu-rfk-jr-dr-oz.html
RFK and Dr. Oz trying to get the Canadian government not to cull ostriches potentially exposed to bird flu.
Dr. Oz, who oversees Medicare and Medicaid for the Trump administration, offered to relocate the doomed birds to his 900-acre ranch in Florida.
We definitely aren't in the good place
This might actually be a good thing because if the US gives up being ahead on this tech then China and others can take on that role, preventing the use of vaccines to strong-arm other countries and extracting huge profits from poor people.
Eh, even CoronaVac/SinoVac was only distributed through the COVAX program. China did support the TRIPS waiver but from what I can tell, when the US shut it down, they didn't just grant a waiver to their own industry. Perhaps that's a WTO rule or something that would punish them for doing that on their own but honestly, fuck the WTO.
That's true, but I do think that was a "we follow the rules" type of move that will be less applicable if the US isn't selling a vaccine.
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