The FDA decided not to even review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccines for approval, even though the studies the FDA would be reviewing were conducted the way the FDA told Moderna to do them.
Now #Moderna expects that none of its other #mRNA#vaccines will be reviewed, and has halted studies on vaccines for EBV, HSV, and shingles.
A lot of people with herpes would be angry if they found out.
A lot of people who have family members with #MS -- now thought to be caused in part by EBV -- will be livid.
Screenshot of a post on X/Twitter by @LeahLibresco, dated Feb 12 2026:
"Moderna’s CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: ‘You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.’ Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
"Measles in South Carolina has spread to at least 789 people, surpassing the 2025 West Texas outbreak that sickened 762 people and killed two young girls."
Got my second Shingles shot earlier today and am starting to feel the ick. Hope it's not as bad as the first shot. To be fair, I did get a covid shot the same day as the first one.
I was going to get a measles booster but the pharmacy has to special order those so I'll have to do that one later.
As South Carolina announces that 648 people have been diagnosed with measles (these are only the people who are diagnosed, and state health official say many more people are infected but not diagnosed), Robin Pennacchia writes,
“Tuesday also happened to be the one-year anniversary of the first reported case of measles last January."
If you get the two part Shingles vaccine, make sure you take the next day off, after the second shot. I jinxed myself by saying "Oh, this isn't too bad." For me, the side effects were mild at first: mostly fatigue. It was the next day that it hit, hard. Are you usually aware of all of your bones? Because you will be acutely aware of all of them after the second shot.
Today, the pain is pretty much gone. I just feel rubbery, the opposite of yesterday where I felt like I was made of heavy lumber and somehow had tried to swim the English channel without drowning.
It's still worth it. Shingles is more painful than the side effects of the shot. (If you ever suspect Shingles, you want to get your doc to Rx Valtrex and Neurontin ASAP, before it gets worse.) I've had Shingles twice. It will make you cry.
We don't know exactly how much protection vs. Alzheimer's that Shingrix imparts, but potentially 40%. Why? Because viruses are key and always have been. They are known triggers of many conditions, especially autoimmune, but others, too.
Jennifer Hamilton here, formerly of med-mastodon.com. That server shut down suddenly. If you followed me before for my toots about #vaccines, #PublicHealth, #FamilyMedicine, my gripes about #ElectronicMedicalRecords#EMR, or even just a few #caturday pictures and chats about bicycling, I'm on mstdn.science now.
The old #MedMastodon went down suddenly in the last week of December 2025, and I don't have a list of my old followers. Please boost this so they can find me!
Blaise, a tuxedo cat with a white stripe down his nose, peers at the world from under a pile of bedclothes. He seems dubious about the whole "new day every day" thing.
I recently turned an anti vaxxer who called the COVID vaccine a clot shot into someone who decided to go and get vaccinated using a very simple argument. Feel free to use it:
Vaccines are made by drug companies.
Drug companies make most of their money off the elderly as ageing populations require more care.
Why would you kill off your customers before they become the most profitable to you?
They've now had all their COVID vaccines.
Ironic too that we were all supposed to be dead by new year's eve.
Ink and markers drawing of two hairy monsters. One is small, thin, and tired, and is holding a very small club and a huge sign that reads “Influenza”. The other is huge and muscular, and is holding a very big, spiked club and a very small sign that reads “COVID”.
“'We estimate that over a seven-year follow-up period, the shingles vaccine averts one in five new dementia diagnoses,' says Dr. Pascal Geldsetzer, an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University and senior author of the study.
The findings were replicated in a similar study in JAMA this year, looking at seniors in Australia when the government rolled out a similar shingles-vaccine program."
Measles outbreaks are growing along the #Utah - #Arizona border & in SC, where hundreds are in #quarantine.
Between Friday & Tuesday, SC #health officials confirmed 27 new measles cases in an #outbreak in & around northwestern Spartanburg County. In 2 months, 111 people have been sickened by the #vaccine#preventable#virus.
Overall, #Utah has confirmed 115 #measles cases this year. #Arizona has confirmed 176.
Nationally, the measles case count is nearing 2,000 for a disease that has been considered eliminated in the #US since 2000, a result of routine childhood #vaccinations.
Last month, #Canada lost that designation — which applies when there is no continuous local spread of the #virus — as did the larger #health region of the #Americas.