Moderna Says FDA Will Consider Its New Flu Shot
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THE VACCINE MAKER MODERNA decided this past week to tell the world about bad news it had received from the federal government. A potentially groundbreaking vaccine for seasonal flu that the Massachusetts-based company had developed would not be getting approval from regulators.
To help answer common vaccine questions, we consulted Dr. Stanley Perlman, a professor at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine and a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) vaccine advisory committee, and Angela Shen, a visiting scientist with the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.