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$500 Million for Yesterday's Flu Vaccine Is a Bad Bet

The US may spend $500 million reinforcing egg-based flu vaccine manufacturing, a platform invented in the 1940s with efficacy that can drop below 20% in a bad year. mRNA vaccines can be redesigned in days. The choice between them is not really about flu season.

By Vera Santos · 3 min read

Health

Mandates Won't Fix a 21% Vaccination Rate

Twelve active measles outbreaks. A school at 21% vaccination. The instinct is to mandate. But mandates assume a compliance infrastructure that no longer exists in the communities hit hardest, and coercion in a trust vacuum makes the resistance worse.

By Kai Brighton · 3 min read