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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Marina Dunbar

FDA reverses course and will review Moderna’s mRNA-based flu vaccine

a women conducting  cancer vaccine research
An assistant conducts vaccine research in the lab at the Moderna Inc headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2024. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reversed course on Wednesday and will now review Moderna’s application for the first mRNA-based flu vaccine after initially declining to consider it.

Moderna announced that the US drug regulator will move forward with reviewing its updated flu vaccine application. The decision comes only a week after the agency turned down the company’s original filing, a move that had prompted criticism across the medical industry about potential changes in how the regulator is making decisions under the Trump administration.

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