# Moderna mRNA Flu Vaccine: FDA Review and Alleged Corporate Pressure - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118929541628338223 - Source account: [@MelissaRedpill](https://x.com/MelissaRedpill) - Source language: English - Duration: 5:07 - Published: 2026-11-07 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure) Also around that time, uh, that Marty was, was in the hot seat, um, the FDA sent a, um, basically sent an application back on the Moderna mRNA flu vaccine. [0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=15) Do, did you ever talk about... Do you, do you, do you remember that? No. Okay. [0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=18) So this is a big uproar among some of the MAHA folks. [0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=21) Um, but, uh, Moderna was using their mRNA technology to create a flu vaccine. Right. [0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=28) Um, they had a joint venture with, um, I believe Blackstone. [0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=33) Um, you know, hundreds of millions into this, into this drug. [0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=38) And the FDA reviewed it, and there were two major issues. [0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=42) One is that the study, you know, you, you always wanna compare the drug to whatever the best standard of care is currently, so, like, whatever the best flu vaccine is, and they used, purposely used a antiquated old one, uh, to make it look better, [0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=58) and they got a warning, uh, basically a letter from the Biden administration saying this isn't a great study design. [1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=62) They've been warned on it. So that was one issue. [1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=65) The second is it didn't work. It had a 0.8% absolute risk reduction, which is almost nothing, and a significant side effect profile, uh, based on the clinical trials. [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=75) So they weren't even comparing it to the standard of care, even though they rigged the study, um, I wanna be careful with my words, in my opinion, rigged the study, but, uh, you know, I think that's safe to say given that they purposely used not the standard of care for whatever it be compared to. [1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=88) Um, very, very low, uh, based on that study, uh, risk reduction, like almost negligible, and then massive side effects. [1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=98) And what were the side effects? Uh, so it, I, I, it can't be definitively said, but there were deaths, um, and- From the trial? [1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=107) Yeah. The, the, there, there were deaths in the trial group. [1:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=111) Oh, God. Um- From the flu- There were deaths in the trial group, um, and, um, you know, a host of other issues. [1:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=119) And they were still trying to push it through. [2:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=121) So Marty said... Uh, didn't even reject it, said, "Push it back. [2:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=125) We need to do another study." [2:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=128) Uh, unrelenting, unrelenting, um, pressure, you know, from the, from the Ballard world and all that. [2:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=137) Um, you know, if any special interest is watching and you're trying to rig the system, unless it changes, pay Ballard, pay Condon, old Susie's daughter, pay Checkmate, uh, Chris Lasavita's son. [2:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=151) That's another one that shot up. And, um, you know, pound Susie with the nations and calls. [2:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=157) Everyone knows this playbook. This is, it's, it's an open secret in DC. But that's what they did. [2:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=161) They followed the playbook. The playbook's out. [2:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=164) And, um, I remember, yeah, the, the, the new F- the, the FDA nominee, uh, Heidi, who was basically, like, Marty's intern. [2:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=171) Like, Marty mentored her. Marty, like, helped her whole career, um, at Johns Hopkins, you know, was her advisor. [2:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=179) Um, I remember she was sitting with Marty and me and, and she basically said, you know, "This corporate pressure is getting so much. [3:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=188) Like, I don't know what I can do for you anymore." [3:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=191) And I'm like, "Oh, okay. This place turns you into demons. [3:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=194) Like, this place just turns you into a demon." [3:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=196) Like, she was breaking with Marty because he refused to bend on something that clearly, like, scientifically, he did the right thing. [3:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=206) Uh, Heidi wasn't reading studies or, like, you know, doing any sci- She was just responding to corporate pressure. [3:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=211) And this is a vaccine that's gonna go out and be called safe and effective. [3:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=217) And kill people. And Marty was fired. Heidi drove the jamming through of a re- re-review, where they set up a sham advisory committee of, you know, run by this guy, um, the head of the vaccine center, Kaslow, uh, was the head of vaccines for Merck. [3:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=237) He has a license plate that says vaccinate, wears an N- Wears, you know, as his license plate. [4:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=243) So he led vaccines for Merck. His license plate says vaccinate, and he has an N95 mask, and, um- Wait a minute. He wears an N95- Yeah ... mask all the time? E- every day. That guy must be fun. [4:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=253) So- What kind of car is he driving? I don't know. It's nice. [4:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=257) He's very, he's very wealthy. I bet he is. [4:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=258) Um, so, so he's in charge of vaccines, so, you know, his group puts together a sham advisory committee, says, "Oh, this is perfect," and now it's approved. [4:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=266) Now that vaccine is safe and effective. And, you know, I was attacked by some MAHA people for not... [4:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=275) Vaccines weren't my issue. Um, I'll tell you, like, we need to grapple with this, and I'll just speak to everybody, right? [4:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=282) Like, this is how it work. Nobody was looking at studies. [4:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=286) Like, the study was not good, and due to political pressure and the former head of Merck Vaccines, who's running the vaccine center, who's never seen a jab he doesn't like, waving it through, like we have a vaccine in the market that l- the FDA did not think was appropriate or at least needed more studies. [5:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/nlHhwbbMEWat/en/moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-fda-review-and-alleged-corporate-pressure?t=303) Like, that's how it fucking works, and we need to grapple with that.