“We’re already partnering with other public health agencies to conduct essential work,” Gottlieb said in a statement released Monday-commissioner by Scott Gotlieb

 The FDA, along with U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will study millions of flu cases from this year.

The FDA said patients who got a vaccine this year were 25 percent less likely to become sick from influenza A, this year’s deadliest strain.This was almost a 20 percent decrease in effectiveness from last year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.