Flow is not collected in Composable

Im creating a Flow inside my repository which fetches data from an sse api

override fun getStream() = flow {
    try {
        val response = api.getStream()
        while (true) {
            //do something with response
            emit(result)
        }
    } catch (e: HttpException) {
        ..
    }
}

It get forwarded into my composable where the viewmodel gets injected

@Composable
fun FirstPage(
    viewmodel: myviewmodel = hiltViewModel()
)

The flow then gets collected like this

val eventStream by viewmodel.getStream().collectAsState(initial = "Loading"))

But in this scenario, the flow does not get collected. If i emit something before the try block, the value will show, but nothing from inside of it.

I know the api call is working, because when i collect the flow inside my viewmodel, the data shows.