{"id":8873,"date":"2025-03-05T10:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8873"},"modified":"2025-03-05T10:08:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:08:24","slug":"fda-cancels-meeting-to-update-next-seasons-flu-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/05\/fda-cancels-meeting-to-update-next-seasons-flu-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA cancels meeting to update next season&#8217;s flu vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fda-cancels-flu-vaccine-meeting\/\">CBS News Video<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration unexpectedly canceled an annual meeting of its advisers to update next season&#8217;s influenza vaccines, an adviser on the panel and multiple officials tell CBS News, upending the usual process to start manufacturing next winter&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/when-to-get-flu-shot-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flu shots<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re all left trying to understand what is going on. Why was this meeting canceled? It&#8217;s an important meeting. What&#8217;s the plan for flu vaccines this year,&#8221; Dr. Paul Offit, a member of the FDA advisory committee and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia, told CBS News.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Offit said he received the notification that the meeting was canceled shortly after 4 p.m. The FDA&#8217;s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee was supposed to meet on March 13 to discuss how to update the shots for the next flu season, Offit said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fda-cancels-flu-vaccine-meeting\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"ToiFI JSzK yKC\"><!-- ToiFI JSzK yKC --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News Video The Food and Drug Administration unexpectedly canceled an annual meeting of its advisers to update next season&#8217;s influenza vaccines, an adviser on the panel and multiple officials tell CBS News, upending the usual process to start manufacturing next winter&#8217;s&nbsp;flu shots. &#8220;We&#8217;re all left trying to understand what is going on. Why was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8874,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions\/8874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}