US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine

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Post by geox » Thu, May 29, 2025, 10:16 AM UTC

US cancels funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine
reuters.com

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Post by matthewdgreen » Thu, May 29, 2025, 11:09 AM UTC

This seems kind of bad.

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Post by jleyank » Thu, May 29, 2025, 11:25 AM UTC

Most people find it difficult to bend reality to match their worldview. Doesn’t stop people from trying. The hope is that the number of people affected from these efforts is minimized.

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Post by krapp » Thu, May 29, 2025, 11:27 AM UTC

matthewdgreen wrote: post #2

This seems kind of bad.

There's a lot of that going around lately.

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Post by msgodel » Thu, May 29, 2025, 11:31 AM UTC

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Post by burnt-resistor » Thu, May 29, 2025, 12:27 PM UTC

krapp wrote: post #4

matthewdgreen wrote: post #2

This seems kind of bad.

There's a lot of that going around lately.

Memetic bird flu preferring self-harm.

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Post by jghn » Thu, May 29, 2025, 12:30 PM UTC

msgodel wrote: post #5

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How exactly were they "sloppy"?

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Post by boroboro4 » Thu, May 29, 2025, 12:33 PM UTC

msgodel wrote: post #5

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I’m still excited about MRNA vaccines (and therapies).

What’s wrong with Covid vaccines apart from particular politicians demonizing them and their respective electorate getting all crazy about non existing issues in their heads?

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Post by bediger4000 » Thu, May 29, 2025, 12:59 PM UTC

The ideological revulsion about mRNA vaccines in particular is an interesting phenomenon.

The vaccines were developed during the first Trump administration. Trump himself wanted credit for developing them. He mentioned Operation Warp Speed in some of his 2020 rallies, and got booed for it.

Trump's Base decided mRNA was bad, with influencers making bizarre predictions about the vaccinated bleeding out in the streets, which of course failed. But Trump's Base decided for Trump about this issue. Trump leads from behind on this one.

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Post by boroboro4 » Thu, May 29, 2025, 1:03 PM UTC

bediger4000 wrote: post #9

The ideological revulsion about mRNA vaccines in particular is an interesting phenomenon. The vaccines were developed during the first Trump administration. Trump himself wanted credit for developing them. He mentioned Operation Warp Speed in some of his 2020 rallies, and got booed for it. Trump's Base decided mRNA was bad, with influencers making bizarre predictions about the vaccinated bleeding out in the streets,…

Which is so unfortunate given the potential mRNA vaccines and therapies have.

They would have made fighting flu so much easier (for the context current flu vaccines take a lot of time to be made each season and hence not very agile towards dominant strain and sometimes miss it a lot, mRNA potentially improves this).