RFK JR cancels $ 500 million in the development of a US TRNA vaccine

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to cancel $ 500 million (£ 376 million) funding for developed VRNA vaccines to counter viruses such as influenza and Covid-19.

This move will influence 22 projects led by major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, for bird flu vaccines and other viruses, HHS said.

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy, Jr., a skeptic of the vaccine, has announced that he is pulling funding for claiming that “MRNA technology is more risks than benefits to these respiratory viruses.”

Doctors and health experts have criticized Kennedy’s long -standing question about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and his views on health policies.

The development of MRNA vaccines to target Covid-19 was crucial to helping the pandemic delay and rescue millions of lives, said Peter Luri, a former employee of the US Food and Drug Administration.

He told the BBC that the change was the US “turning its back on one of the most promising instruments to combat the next pandemic.”

In a statement, Kennedy said his team “reviewed science, listened to the experts and acted.” “(T) data shows that these vaccines do not effectively protect themselves from upper respiratory tract infections such as Covid and influenza,” he said.

He said the department transferred the funding to “more festive, wider vaccine platforms that remain effective even when the viruses mutate.”

Kennedy also claims that MRNA vaccines can help “promote new mutations and can actually prolong the pandemics, as the virus is constantly mutated to escape the protective effects of the vaccine.”

Health experts said the viruses mutate, whether vaccines for them exist.

Dr. Paul Office, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Philadelphia Children’s Hospital, notes that the flu virus mutates every year, whether people are vaccinated while the measles virus did not mutate it, although the greater part of the people were vaccinated with the MRNA shot.

He said MRNA vaccines are “remarkably safe” and the key to help prevent severe viruses such as Covid-19.

HHS said the department that manages vaccine projects, the biomedical advanced research and development body (BARDA), will focus on “platforms with stronger safety and transparent clinical and production practices”.

While some vaccines use inactivated virus to activate an immune response, MRNA vaccines work by training cells how to make proteins that can cause an immune response. MRNA and Pfizer MRNA vaccines were tested in thousands of people before being deployed and established as safe and effective.

D. The office that invented the Rotavirus vaccine said the cancellation of funding could put the United States in a “more dangerous” position to respond to any potential future pandemic. He noted that MRNA vaccines have a shorter cycle of development, which is why they were crucial to the response of the Covid-19 pandemic.

After taking office, Kennedy has taken a number of steps to transform the way he develops and regulates vaccines.

In June, he fired all 17 members of a committee that issues official government recommendations on immunizations, replacing them with some people who criticize the safety and efficacy of vaccines.

It also removed the Covid-19 vaccine from the Disease Control Center and the recommended immunization schedule for healthy children and pregnant women.