The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
Fun fact that I wish had been more widely broadcast during the Pandemic:
We were 100% sure the Moderna mRNA COVID vax was safe for pregnant women the very first day it was approved for general use.
How?
During the initial “first responders only” phase, when only EMTs, doctors, and nurses were getting vaccinated, there were several thousand women who had recently become pregnant but were not yet aware of it. Once they learned of their status, of course they were tracked much more closely.
So we had a “natural experiment” at a scale far larger than most stage-3 human trials, of how the vaccine affects pregnant women and their babies.
Executive summary: it prevents the mom and the baby from getting super sick, from having complications, and from death.
I work at an IT company that handles VAERS info.
Fun fact that I wish had been more widely broadcast during the Pandemic:
We were 100% sure the Moderna mRNA COVID vax was safe for pregnant women the very first day it was approved for general use.
How?
During the initial “first responders only” phase, when only EMTs, doctors, and nurses were getting vaccinated, there were several thousand women who had recently become pregnant but were not yet aware of it. Once they learned of their status, of course they were tracked much more closely.
So we had a “natural experiment” at a scale far larger than most stage-3 human trials, of how the vaccine affects pregnant women and their babies.
Executive summary: it prevents the mom and the baby from getting super sick, from having complications, and from death.
IOW, while RFK is blocking pregnant mothers from getting mRNA vaccines due to health concerns and demanding studies, THE STUDIES HAVE ALREADY BEEN DONE