{"id":1189411,"date":"2023-10-05T19:33:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T23:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189411"},"modified":"2023-10-05T19:33:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T23:33:16","slug":"after-covid-killed-off-a-flu-strain-annual-flu-shots-are-in-for-a-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1189411","title":{"rendered":"After COVID killed off a flu strain, annual flu shots are in for a redesign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> The flu virus, showing the H and N proteins on its surface. (credit: CDC<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Vaccine advisors for the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously (12 to 0) Thursday<\/a> to remove, “as soon as possible,” a component of annual flu shots that targets a strain of the virus that appears to have gone extinct amid the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

The vote follows a similar recommendation from the World Health Organization last week<\/a>, which stated that “every effort should be made to exclude this component as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n

Exactly how soon that removal could happen is unclear, though, and some advisors on the FDA’s panel expressed frustration that plans for the removal appear to have been slow-walked in the last couple of years, as it only became more apparent that the strain may be gone for good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nSource: Ars Technica – After COVID killed off a flu strain, annual flu shots are in for a redesign<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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