RFK JR cancels 500 million dollars in the development of a flexible vaccine in the United States

The US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) plans to cancel 500 million dollars (376 million pounds) in financing the seated RNA vaccines that are being developed to counter viruses that cause diseases such as influenza and Covid-19.

HHS said this will affect 22 projects led by major pharmaceutical companies, including PFIZER and Moderna, for vaccines against bird flu and other viruses.

Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who doubts the vaccines, announced that he had withdrawn funding for allegations that “a flexible technique poses more risks than the benefits of these respiratory viruses.”

Doctors and health experts have long criticized Kennedy’s interrogation for the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and his views on health policies.

Peter Lori, a former Food and Drug Administration official, said that the development of the Covid-19 Rena vaccines was the most important thing in helping to slow down the epidemic and save millions of lives.

“The change was” turning its back on one of the most promising tools to fight the following epidemic. “

In a statement, Kennedy said that his team “reviewed the flag, listened to the experts, and behaved.” He said: “(R) data shows that these vaccines fail to protect effectively from upper respiratory infections such as Covid and influenza.”

He said that the administration was converting funding towards “safer and broader vaccine platforms that are still effective even with the transformation of viruses.”

Kennedy also claimed that flexible vaccines can help “encourage new mutations and can actually prolong the epidemics because the virus is constantly turning to escape the preventive effects of the vaccine.”

Health experts said that viruses are turned regardless of whether the vaccines are present for them.

This was true every year for influenza virus, for example.

Dr. Ofit said that our flexible vaccines were “significantly safe” and a key to help prevent severe infections from viruses such as Covid-19.

HHS said that the administration that manages vaccine projects, which is the Medical Search and Development Authority (Barda), will focus on “platforms with strongest safety records, clinical data and transparent manufacturing practices.”

While some vaccines use a broken virus to create an immune response, flexible vaccines work by teaching cells how to make proteins that can lead to an immune response. Mrna Moderna and PFIZER vaccines were tested in thousands of people before they were put up and found that they are safe and effective.

Dr. Ofit, who invented the Rota Virus vaccine, said the cancellation of funding could put the United States in a “more dangerous” position to respond to any possible future pandemic. He pointed out that flexible vaccines have a shorter development course, which is why they were decisive to respond to the Covid-19s.

Since he took office, Kennedy has taken a number of steps to transform how the country’s Ministry of Health was developing and regulating vaccines.

In June, all members of the 17th committee that issued the official government’s recommendations on vaccinations were launched, and replaced them with some people who criticized the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.

He also removed the COVID-19 vaccine from the recommended immunization center from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Healthy Children and pregnant women.