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Health Canada approves Moderna flu and COVID vaccines for seniors

New mRNA vaccines for influenza and a combined flu-COVID shot are approved for adults 50 and older.

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Health Canada approves Moderna flu and COVID vaccines for seniors

What this story says

  • Health Canada has authorized Moderna's mRNA vaccine for influenza and a combined flu-COVID-19 vaccine.
  • Both vaccines are approved for adults aged 50 years and older.
  • Moderna has stated that these approved vaccines will not be available in pharmacies in time for the current respiratory virus season.
  • The National Advisory Committee on Immunization recommends the non-mRNA flu shot for everyone aged six months and older.

Who covered it

Left 67%(10)Centre 33%(5)Right 0%(0)

Percentages are shares of the 15 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. Coverage measured .

Trust

48/100

Craft

60/100

Hype

15/100

15 sources · methodology

Thin on the right so far

None of the 15 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Health Canada has authorized two new vaccines from Moderna: an mRNA vaccine for influenza and a combination mRNA vaccine for both influenza and COVID-19. Both vaccines have been approved for use in adults aged 50 years and older. However, Moderna informed The Canadian Press that these vaccines will not be available in pharmacies in time for the current respiratory virus season. The National Advisory Committee on Immunization recommends that individuals six months of age and older receive the non-mRNA flu shot that is currently available.

Disagreement on vaccine availability timeline

Moderna told The Canadian Press that the newly approved vaccines will not reach pharmacies in time for the respiratory virus season. This information was reported by City News, CFJC Today Kamloops, Medicine Hat News, and Ckpg Today. None of the other reports included this detail.

What the coverage left out

None of the left-rated or centre-rated reports mentioned the specific names Moderna gave its vaccines: mFLUSIVA for the flu vaccine and mCOFLU for the combination flu and COVID-19 shot. The full report from City News stated these names, but they were not carried in the digests of other outlets.

Tags:#HealthCanada#Moderna#Vaccines#FluSeason#COVID19

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 3 times, most recently on 6 Nov 2026, 01:30, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

10 rated outlets

  • Ten left-rated reports led with the approval of Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine and its combination flu-COVID-19 vaccine. All ten reports stated that both vaccines are approved for adults aged 50 and older. Seven of these reports also included the detail that Moderna indicated the vaccines would not be available in pharmacies in time for the respiratory virus season. Six of the left-rated reports mentioned the National Advisory Committee on Immunization's recommendation for the non-mRNA flu shot for individuals six months and older.

Centre

5 rated outlets

  • Five centre-rated reports led with the approval of Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine and its combination flu-COVID-19 vaccine. All five reports stated that both vaccines are approved for adults aged 50 and older. Three of these reports also included the detail that Moderna indicated the vaccines would not be available in pharmacies in time for the respiratory virus season. Three of the centre-rated reports mentioned the National Advisory Committee on Immunization's recommendation for the non-mRNA flu shot for individuals six months and older. City News, the only outlet with a full report, also included information about a higher-dose flu vaccine recommended for adults 65 and older and the committee's advice on COVID-19 vaccination for older adults and residents of care facilities.

Right

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated right has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Health Canada approves Moderna flu and COVID vaccines for seniors?
Of the 15 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 67% are rated left, 33% are rated centre, 0% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Health Canada approves Moderna flu and COVID vaccines for seniors left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 15 rated outlets on this story, 67% are rated left, 33% are rated centre, 0% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Health Canada approves Moderna flu and COVID vaccines for seniors biased?
Health Canada approves Moderna flu and COVID vaccines for seniors is one event reported by 15 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Health Canada approves Moderna flu and COVID vaccines for seniors?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Health Canada approves Moderna flu and COVID vaccines for seniors?
15 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What new vaccines has Health Canada approved?
Health Canada has approved Moderna's mRNA vaccine for influenza and a combination mRNA vaccine for both influenza and COVID-19. These approvals are for adults aged 50 and older.
When will the new Moderna vaccines be available?
Moderna has stated that the newly approved mRNA flu and flu-COVID combination vaccines will not reach pharmacies in time for the current respiratory virus season.
What flu vaccine is recommended this year?
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization recommends that everyone six months of age and older receive the non-mRNA flu shot that is available this year.

Read it at the source

15 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

10
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Centre

5

Right

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

Not rated

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

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