Last week the US FDA refused to approve the Moderna mRNA flu vaccine because of the inadequacy of trial design.
Right away the virulence and reach of the pro vaccine, pro pharma lobby became apparent. Articles are appearing in newspapers all over the world calling for an end to so-called anti-vax policy decisions. For example the NY Post carried an editorial entitled “To save seniors’ lives, Trump must stomp on this deadly anti-vax call“. It falsely claimed that thousands of senior citizens would die if the mRNA flu vaccine was not approved immediately. It personally attacked Dr. Vinay Prasad, the head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, branding him a “drug bureaucrat who appears determined to maximise the death toll.”
In fact Dr. Prasad is not in any sense an anti-vaxxer, he is one of the world’s most highly credentialed and published scientists who has built his reputation by advocating for stricter drug safety protocols in trials. In other words, contrary to the claims in the media, his motivation comes from a desire to protect the public, not as the NY Post said from “paranoia”.
There is no doubt Prasad’s caution follows on the growing weight of published research showing elevated mortality associated with mRNA Covid vaccination. For example a pre-print study published this February 2026 is entitled “Persistent All-Cause Excess Mortality Observed in Japan After the COVID-19 Pandemic“. It reports the 5.7% higher excess mortality in 2024 in Japan was more strongly correlated with the number of Covid booster jabs than with the number of Covid infections.
The newspaper articles being published around the world supporting Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine and calling for its approval are using inflammatory language suggesting that the FDA’s refusal to approve the drug is ‘unlawful’. They are being written to sound plausible, and may appear to be so to the uninformed, but the ideas being expressed are misleading and inaccurate. They are designed to create baseless fear. We are being gaslit.
Sit back for a minute and consider: When has it ever been unlawful to question drug safety or demand high standards of drug safety testing? Isn’t that just common sense? Especially considering the inflated claim of 98.5% effectiveness that was announced to the NZ public and the world about the mRNA Covid vaccines. We now know this was nonsense. Moreover over 65,000 Kiwis registered adverse effects of the vaccine with CARM, the drug safety reporting arm of Health NZ. A figure that Health NZ admitted is a huge underestimate of the actual harm. Wouldn’t caution be a sensible approach to another mass mRNA vaccination programme? You tell me.
The Moderna mRNA flu vaccine is currently under review and likely to be approved for use in Australia, the EU and Canada during the 2026 flu season. It is not yet clear if it will be offered to the New Zealand public. Whatever happens, note the media’s deceptive use of the simple term ‘flu vaccine’ omitting to highlight the introduction of novel mRNA vaccine technology. Moderna would like its vaccine to be talked about as just another ‘flu vaccine’ like its predecessors, but ‘more effective’.
In fact, like Covid mRNA vaccines, the mRNA flu vaccine crosses the cell membrane and redirects billions of cells to produce parts of a pathogenic influenza flu virus. The long term outcome of this immune system redirection is unknown and cannot be known without extensive testing. Prasad is correctly inferring a need for caution from extensive experience and research findings that report Covid mRNA vaccination has been connected with adverse mutagenic events including permanent integration of the vaccine function in the genome, neurological illness, cardiac illness, kidney disease, cancer and excess deaths. Therefore he is calling for an abundance of caution. Moreover he is not banning flu vaccines, traditional flu vaccines for 2026, without the use of mRNA technology, are available for those that want them.
So why the outcry? Vaccine approval is a licence to print money. No doubt the vast resources of the pharmaceutical/biotech lobby are being put to use to paint the FDA black. Favours are being called in from the media. For years the vaccine industry has enjoyed a free ride when it comes to drug safety. It is not about to give that up without a fight.
The New Zealand Doctor, a magazine for NZ health professionals,has joined the chorus of voices calling for mRNA flu vaccine approval by reprinting an article from the The Conversation, a news magazine which is 90% funded by partner universities and research institutions. It concluded that any refusal to rapidly approve vaccines is a disincentive to invest in their development. It asked health professionals to oppose any increase in vaccine safety standards. It also falsely suggested that there is no credible evidence of any health risk from mRNA Covid vaccines. A position which speaks volumes about the particular bias of The Conversation and the continuing refusal of the NZ medical establishment to acknowledge any Covid vaccine harm or undertake any meaningful assessment of long term health outcomes comparing the Covid vaccinated with the unvaccinated. A stance which goes against the established protocols of valid scientific procedure and method.
When your doctor advises you to take a routine flu vaccine for 2026, they will likely not be mentioning the mRNA word. Ask them what exactly is involved and do your own research. There is more than enough evidence of mRNA vaccine harm to give it a very wide berth. All that glitters is not gold. Instead we can make efforts to bolster our health with improved diet, exercise, meditation, sunshine and fresh air which studies show will strengthen our immune response to flu.
