A few days ago the New York Post reported that the FDA had delayed its inspection of a monkeypox vaccine facility in Denmark. As a result, the US was unable to import vaccine doses made in the new facility, and this in turn was laying waste to an entire generation of Americans. Here's a followup from AP:
Thousands more doses of monkeypox vaccine are expected to soon begin shipping to the U.S. after federal health officials said they had completed an inspection of the overseas plant where they were manufactured.
....The U.S. government has purchased more than 1.1 million completed doses of the vaccine produced by Bavarian Nordic in Denmark....An FDA spokeswoman said late Wednesday that regulators “expedited and completed an inspection of the company’s plant.”
“We do not expect any delay in vaccine availability due to this process,” she said in an emailed statement.
The FDA announced this on Wednesday and the Associated Press shipped its piece on Thursday. The Post, as near as I can tell, has not bothered to take note. In fact, virtually no one seems to have taken note.
This is an all-too-common news cycle. An initial piece generates panic and is shared all over social media. A day later—or maybe two or three—we learn that, in fact, everything is fine, but this barely rates a blip in the news. For the rest of time, then, the entire country vaguely remembers some kind of heinous debacle but has no idea how it actually turned out. Rinse and repeat.
The Post blows, and most of the rest of the media are just lazy.
Dog bites man?
Granted, social media does amplify it....
Lately, I haven't heard anything about the baby formula shortage. I recall panicky headlines about that just a couple of months ago.
Interestingly, Biden took a hit on that, but not so much Abbott Labs or that entire industry....
Putin is being blamed for tampons. It could be worse.
Will the GQP staunch the bleeding with women voters following the Supremes Roe Reversal by drawing attention to the Biden-Harris Stagflation caused Tampax Tax?
They're still flying in formula. Abbot's troubled plant was slightly flooded just after they restarted production and they have to clean it up again. Blame this one of climate change.
I am slowly starting to agree with the likes of T. Cowen, that there is something wrong with the FDA.
I'm not sure that I agree with his diagnosis - his value-add here, as usual, seems a bit poisonous - but I do agree that it hasn't been functioning well in the reality we find ourselves in, and no one near the levers appear to want to do anything about that.
But this is the US, where that most likely just means an opportunity for someone to break it more and turn a profit.
The entire US public health system is underfunded and after the first phase of the pandemic many Republican states thought it was a good idea to strip public health departments of what little power they had.
But the main problem seems that it takes a while to ramp up testing -- initially tests had to depend on state public health labs, now they've got it out to commercial labs.
One problem is they seem themselves as the f... DA!!!!!!!!! That is everyone in charge is concerned about drugs not food
And NOT a word about COVID
The fun is NOT over folks
My daughter got it for the second time 4 days ago. The Mrs and I have tested negative twice now. The Health Department believes it to be the .5 Omicron variant. The .75(?) variant has been detected here in the U.S.
Of course, due to home testing we are under counting cases by a factor of 7 and many scientists and doctors are saying we may need to get USED to 100,000+ extra deaths per year ON TOP of flu deaths.
But hey, lets not worry - right?
No body cares about it. It's endemic now bud. Accept it and move on.
You're not everybody.
Well, here in New Mexico, just this week the governor (MLG) held a press briefing to discuss both the Covid and monkeypox situations and what's being done. Case counts on the pox are still low; Covid rates are high and unacceptable.
I'm seeing more and more people wearing masks, and maybe it's time for me, too.
Arguably, the Monkeypox outbreak during year 3 of the Accidental W Regime was worse than either Obama's Katrina or Bird Flu Epidemic, or Biden's Insurrection or Monkeypox Epidemic, but I notice the likes of Thiessen & Frum eerily silent.
Thiessen is still just as stupid as ever, just not about this.
90% of cases are in fags. Maybe PB should talk again about responsibility and "moral" living.
If I walked in to my doctor and asked for a vaccine I wouldn't get one. Until then it remains a real problem.
However again this is standard Biden stuff. Flail around then get it right but they're too slow off the mark so it's too late. To be fair the disaster that is the FDA and CDC predate Biden and Trump.
I think you are wrong about the FDA and CDC under donnie. He used his bully pulpit to de-ligitamize the CDC and pulled the plug on the FDA as he left.
Which ended up hurting him when state health departments went nuts in the spring. Using the legitimacy of the cdc to remove petty ineffective restrictions and prepare for waves were the administration's greatest failure.
Man, you're really lashing out at the Neoliberals after their contentions about Lizzie Bing Bong & her hubs, Bobby Hill Gone to Seed, proved correct.
It's hard out here for a progressive (when you're trying to make that money to attend Coachella).
*I absolutely would kick Matt Bruenig in the taint if I met him, after all that Paycheck Protection Program money he skimmed for his thinktank with one fulltime employee (himself) & one parttimer. I would punctuate by saying, "Those are my tax dollars! I don't know you!"
What the actual fuck are you on about?
From the BBC this morning: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62188005
Okay, now all the gas stations along my usual routes are under $4 per gallon for regular. Except, of course, Chevron.
So, Royal Dutch Shell has gone along with the pricefixing to help goose joebiden's approval rating?
No wonder Glenn Kessler turned into such a salty bitch this week.
Range is now $4.20 in the sticks to $4.60 town. 70% of the stations are at $4.60
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