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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Children without consent from their parents being the largest demographic impacted.

In my experience, it isn't parental consent that's the limiting factor. It's public provision.

Parents will, for the most part, do what they're told is best for their kids. If you offer vaccines with the promise that they'll reduce illness and improve the kids' lives, they'll see that their kids vaccinated. But if you gut funding to CDC, CMS, and NIH, you never get any vaccines to begin with. If you underinvest in the infrastructure that makes the formula, there's nothing to dole out.

Factory's loss of licence halves supply of flu vaccine to US

The agency revoked the manufacturing licence of Chiron Corporation's factory for three months pending further investigation, after an inspection of the plant raised concerns over possible contamination. The agency gave no details, but in August Chiron acknowledged that some four million doses of its Fluvirin flu vaccine were potentially contaminated with Serratia marcescens , a bacterium linked to infections caught through dialysis and pneumonia.

At the time the company warned of possible delays in replacing some faulty batches but said it intended to meet its commitments. Now the company's entire supply has been cut off, leaving US federal health agencies 48 million doses short of the 100 million doses they planned to distribute this year.

This is what's caused a record high rate of flu deaths in the United States. Not some random pastor spouting bullshit.