US Health Secretary to cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects • FRANCE 24 English

mRNA vaccines have been credited with helping slow the CO 19 pandemic and saving lives. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. disagrees. On Tuesday, the US health secretary announced he was cancelling nearly $500 million worth of grants and contracts for their development affecting 22 projects to fight respiratory viruses like COVID and the flu. Most of these shots are for flu or COVID, but as the pandemic showed us, mRNA vaccines don’t perform well against viruses that infect the upper respiratory tract. To replace the troubled mRNA programs, we’re prioritizing the development of safer, broader vaccine strategies. Infectious disease experts have condemned the announcement as dangerous, noting mRNA technology is safe and future pandemics will be harder to stop without it. Kennedy also claimed the vaccines can help encourage new mutations and prolong a pandemic. But scientists note that viruses mutate regardless of whether a vaccine exists for it. On social media, epidemiologist Abra Karan said mRNA vaccines for CO saved millions of lives. To forget this just a few years later is a big mistake. Infectious disease doctor Jake Scott argued it wasn’t mRNA technology that posed a risk, but instead abandoning the most adaptable, scalable vaccine platform we’ve ever had. And Rick Bright, a flu expert who was ousted as the head of a research division at the health department during the first Trump administration, denounced a bad day for science and a huge blow to our national security. RFK Jr. is a longtime vaccine critic. Since he was appointed health secretary, he’s pulled back recommendations around the CO 19 shots, fired the panel that makes vaccine recommendations, and refused to offer a vigorous endorsement of vaccinations amid a measles outbreak.

The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted.
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17 comments

  3. Can't afford vaccine programs, but can afford military parades on the leaders birthday, paving concrete on the rose garden, and paying for a ball room in the leader's palace.

  4. It's just wild seeing the US being destroyed from the inside bit by bit. Say what you will about putin but he's a genius for winning over his enemy without a single shot fired at the US.

  5. MNRA vaccines are actually a pretty useless technology and will soon be phased out. The virus just adapts and is able to dodge whatever the vaccine throws at it.

  7. They’re just complaining cause their millions in funding got cut, not because they care about the advancement of new health technologies and saving lives.

  14. 2020 March 10-11 I took vitamin D3 zinc & quinine tonic Water in soda aisle been COVID IMMUNE SINCE. I'M SMART.

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