CIDRAP News: Trump signs executive order to improve flu vaccines
“President Donald Trump [Thursday] issued an executive order directing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to overhaul seasonal flu vaccine production and urge more Americans to be vaccinated. The executive order, titled “Modernizing Influenza Vaccines in the United States to Promote National Security and Public Health,” promotes new vaccine manufacturing technologies to support more robust vaccines and advances the development of vaccines that provide longer lasting coverage against a broad range of flu viruses…” (Schnirring, 9/20).