{"id":66252,"date":"2026-02-13T08:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/fda-refuses-to-consider-moderna-flu-shot-in-move-experts-claim-is-part-of-anti-vaccine-agenda\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:07:04","slug":"fda-refuses-to-consider-moderna-flu-shot-in-move-experts-claim-is-part-of-anti-vaccine-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/fda-refuses-to-consider-moderna-flu-shot-in-move-experts-claim-is-part-of-anti-vaccine-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA refuses to consider Moderna flu shot in move experts claim is part of \u2018anti-vaccine agenda\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agency says application rejected due to lack of \u2018adequate and well controlled\u2019 trial, but experts say \u2018they\u2019re just coming up with reasons\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A senior US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official says Moderna\u2019s clinical trial on a new, potentially more effective flu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/vaccines\">vaccine<\/a> was a \u201cbrazen failure\u201d and that the FDA is now calling it into question.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA unexpectedly refused to consider Moderna\u2019s application for a flu shot based on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology in a decision that experts say is already having a chilling effect on vaccine development.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/13\/fda-moderna-flu-vaccine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency says application rejected due to lack of \u2018adequate and well controlled\u2019 trial, but experts say \u2018they\u2019re just coming up with reasons\u2019 A senior US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official says Moderna\u2019s clinical trial on a new, potentially more effective flu vaccine was a \u201cbrazen failure\u201d and that the FDA is now calling it &#8230; <a title=\"FDA refuses to consider Moderna flu shot in move experts claim is part of \u2018anti-vaccine agenda\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/fda-refuses-to-consider-moderna-flu-shot-in-move-experts-claim-is-part-of-anti-vaccine-agenda\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FDA refuses to consider Moderna flu shot in move experts claim is part of \u2018anti-vaccine agenda\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}