STAT March 5, 2024
When Americans line up for flu vaccines next fall, they will almost certainly be getting vaccines that no longer contain protection against a family of flu viruses that appears to be extinct.
Experts who advise the Food and Drug Administration on vaccine-related issues voted unanimously on Tuesday to recommend that the FDA approve trivalent flu vaccines for the 2024-2025 season, instead of the quadrivalent, or four-in-one, shots that have been the industry standard for the past decade or so.
The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee — VRBPAC, as it’s known — has been pushing for the removal of one of the influenza B components in flu vaccines, the portion that targeted B/Yamagata viruses, for some time now. B/Yamagata...
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