Sad but not surprising! Paul Offitt’s work is wonderful! I can hear the frustration in his words! The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens. That includes Public Health! This is incredibly dangerous!
Thank you for sharing this really bad news. This is deeply concerning. Flu strain selection is crucial for effective vaccines, and skipping this process risks public health. What can we do?!!!
In addition to us perhaps not getting vaccine coverage of the corrects strains for our part of the world, there is the possible pandemic threat:
U.S. withdrawal from global flu surveillance and response weakens both domestic and global capacity to prevent and respond to pandemics.
WHO member states, including the U.S., share flu viruses with the potential to cause pandemics promptly, enabling rapid risk assessment and fast production of appropriate countermeasures to combat flu pandemics.[62]
In preparation for potential pandemic flu, WHO vaccine composition meetings also assess and select viruses for vaccines for pandemic preparedness.[63] WHO flu collaborating centers, including the U.S. CDC, develop these candidate vaccine viruses and share them with other flu collaborating centers, essential regulatory labs, and manufacturers,[64] helping build stockpiles of key vaccine materials. Such stockpiles can shave months off of the timeline to produce vaccines deployed as a first line of defense against pandemic flu.[65] The U.S., for example, has a stockpile of pre-pandemic flu vaccine “building blocks” that, if well-matched to an emerging strain, can be filled into vials and deployed within weeks, with the potential to produce millions more doses over a few months.[66]
Holy crap!! They are just monsters. I lived in the DC Baltimore area a good bit of my life until 13 years ago. On one hand, I wish I lived there now cause I would be in front of all those federal buildings every single blank day.. on the other hand, my oldest son still lives in DC for the last 20 years and he says it’s just living hell. For all the residents.
Thank you so much for this information. I will share this news on my other Substack subscriptions. If my doctor were able to get a flu vaccine from Canada there would now be tariffs, making the vaccine very expensive and likely not fully covered by our insurance.
In addition we can contact members of the Health and Human Services Committee in the Senate to express our opinion and learn what can be done about this potential health crisis:
Hi 👋 Women get Long Covid more than men. Maybe women get covid vaccines more often than men? Wr need more research on this~ 3 of my female relatives have long covid and they’re all different ages and I have female friends with long covid also. 1/2billion people have long covid in the world …
WE NEED THE FLU VACCINE MEETING we love our flu vaccines on time by Halloween or November. Let’s all demand it call 📞 Congress.
Really hope flu meeting happens to decide on strains it covers, hope CDC,FDA are not gutted, jobs are restored, hope we communicate with..are part of WHO again. Call 📞 Congress people, squeaky wheels, voices, “We need the Flu meeting and timely vaccines to save lives and lessen illness effects for public health next autumn.”
Friday Tomorrow is the Economic Blackout 🪧 Protest Day ~ this means people could choose to support small businesses with cash, no credit card purchases for a 24 hour day at big box stores or online if feasible to send the message of discontent with Doge, E l o n and dumb political decisions harming our democracy ~and public health infrastructure and staffing, research, USAID WHO NIH CDC etc WE LOVE OUR Democracy and Peace, science is awesome 😎
Let's hope that when trump is called into account for his crime spree presidency, that Bob jr will be next in line for crimes against humanity, why no repercussions for his practicing of medicine without a license for decades???
Dystopian, thank you for keeping us informed
yeah, not my favorite one to share.
Sad but not surprising! Paul Offitt’s work is wonderful! I can hear the frustration in his words! The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens. That includes Public Health! This is incredibly dangerous!
Thanks for keeping us informed!
Thank you for sharing this really bad news. This is deeply concerning. Flu strain selection is crucial for effective vaccines, and skipping this process risks public health. What can we do?!!!
This is alarming and so unnecessary. Here's a resource that explains what may happen as a result of the US withdrawing from this process:
https://www.citizen.org/article/global-flu-surveillance-and-response/
In addition to us perhaps not getting vaccine coverage of the corrects strains for our part of the world, there is the possible pandemic threat:
U.S. withdrawal from global flu surveillance and response weakens both domestic and global capacity to prevent and respond to pandemics.
WHO member states, including the U.S., share flu viruses with the potential to cause pandemics promptly, enabling rapid risk assessment and fast production of appropriate countermeasures to combat flu pandemics.[62]
In preparation for potential pandemic flu, WHO vaccine composition meetings also assess and select viruses for vaccines for pandemic preparedness.[63] WHO flu collaborating centers, including the U.S. CDC, develop these candidate vaccine viruses and share them with other flu collaborating centers, essential regulatory labs, and manufacturers,[64] helping build stockpiles of key vaccine materials. Such stockpiles can shave months off of the timeline to produce vaccines deployed as a first line of defense against pandemic flu.[65] The U.S., for example, has a stockpile of pre-pandemic flu vaccine “building blocks” that, if well-matched to an emerging strain, can be filled into vials and deployed within weeks, with the potential to produce millions more doses over a few months.[66]
Holy crap!! They are just monsters. I lived in the DC Baltimore area a good bit of my life until 13 years ago. On one hand, I wish I lived there now cause I would be in front of all those federal buildings every single blank day.. on the other hand, my oldest son still lives in DC for the last 20 years and he says it’s just living hell. For all the residents.
Scary times. Do they want us all dead? He seemed not to care during COVID!
shared on LinkedIn where I'm probably shadow banned. #RESIST
Seems like RFK's mission is to shoot himself and everyone else. LIterally suicide and murder.
Thank you so much for this information. I will share this news on my other Substack subscriptions. If my doctor were able to get a flu vaccine from Canada there would now be tariffs, making the vaccine very expensive and likely not fully covered by our insurance.
In addition we can contact members of the Health and Human Services Committee in the Senate to express our opinion and learn what can be done about this potential health crisis:
https://www.senate.gov/general/committee_membership/committee_memberships_SSHR.htm
Hi 👋 Women get Long Covid more than men. Maybe women get covid vaccines more often than men? Wr need more research on this~ 3 of my female relatives have long covid and they’re all different ages and I have female friends with long covid also. 1/2billion people have long covid in the world …
WE NEED THE FLU VACCINE MEETING we love our flu vaccines on time by Halloween or November. Let’s all demand it call 📞 Congress.
Really hope flu meeting happens to decide on strains it covers, hope CDC,FDA are not gutted, jobs are restored, hope we communicate with..are part of WHO again. Call 📞 Congress people, squeaky wheels, voices, “We need the Flu meeting and timely vaccines to save lives and lessen illness effects for public health next autumn.”
Friday Tomorrow is the Economic Blackout 🪧 Protest Day ~ this means people could choose to support small businesses with cash, no credit card purchases for a 24 hour day at big box stores or online if feasible to send the message of discontent with Doge, E l o n and dumb political decisions harming our democracy ~and public health infrastructure and staffing, research, USAID WHO NIH CDC etc WE LOVE OUR Democracy and Peace, science is awesome 😎
Let's hope that when trump is called into account for his crime spree presidency, that Bob jr will be next in line for crimes against humanity, why no repercussions for his practicing of medicine without a license for decades???