RFK Jr cancels $500m in mRNA vaccine development in the US
The US Ministry of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to cancel $ 500 million (£ 376 million) for financing for MRNA vaccines developed to resist viruses such as Grip and Covid-19.
Movement, including large pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, will be directed for vaccines against bird flu and other viruses, he said.
Robert F Kennedy Jr, a vaccine skeptic, said that “MRNA technology poses more risks than benefits for these respiratory viruses”.
Doctors and health professionals have criticized Kennedy’s discussions about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and health policies for a long time.
The development of MRNA vaccines to target the COVİD-19, the development of MRNA vaccines, helps to slow down pandema and save millions of lives.
Dr Offit told BBC that Kennedy’s movement would bring the US to a “more dangerous” position to respond to any future potential pandemia, because they had a shorter development cycle of MRNA vaccines, so they were able to use Covid pandemia.
Kennedy said in a statement, his team “examined science, listens to experts and took action,” he said.[T]The data shows that these vaccines are not effectively protected against upper respiratory infections such as Covid and Flu, “he said.
The Minister said that the funds of the department shifted to the “viruses, even if they are mutated, to the safer, wider vaccine platforms”.
However, DR Offit, who invented the Rotavirus vaccine, said that MRNA vaccines were the key to helping to prevent violent infections from viruses such as “very safe” and Covid.
HHS said that the department that manages projects will focus on the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) on “stronger security records and platforms with transparent clinical and production data applications”.
Some vaccines use a inactive virus to trigger an immune response, while MRNA vaccines work by teaching how to perform proteins that can trigger the immune response to the cells. Modernna and Pfizer’s MRNA vaccines were tested in thousands of people before being released and found safe and effective.
Since his time he took office, Kennedy has taken a series of steps to transform how the country’s health department has developed and organized vaccines.
In June, he fired 17 members of a committee that published official government proposals on vaccines and changed with some people who criticized the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.
In addition, the Covid vaccine was removed from the Disease Control Center and the prevention of prevention from the proposed vaccination program for healthy children and pregnant women.
