RFK Jr wants to kill us"..admin pulls funding for new mRNA vaccines" [View all]

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that the government is pulling $500 million in funding to develop new mRNA vaccines in order to focus on "safer, broader vaccine platforms."

Why it matters: Among the 22 contracts the Trump administration said it is winding down is a Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority award to Moderna to develop a new line of defense against H5N1 bird flu.

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What they're saying: Kennedy said data showed the vaccines in question "fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu."

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"No vaccine for respiratory viruses — COVID, flu, RSV — provides durable sterilizing immunity. That was never the standard and shouldn't be the expectation," Stanford associate professor Jake Scott wrote on X.

"Ending BARDA's investment in mRNA technology creates a national security vulnerability," said Chris Meekins, a Raymond James analyst and an HHS strategic preparedness official in the first Trump administration.

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This is madness by a mad man. The COVID virus is still out there
getting people sick, killing them, mutating into new strains and so to
fight against it we must understand that the C-19 virus’s genetic material
is mRNA and to stop research dealing with RNA is guaranteeing failure.

Not to mention Avian Influenza (bird flu) is a RNA virus too. (I think Botany = )

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/mrna-vaccine-development-kennedy-funding