RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
WASHINGTON (AP) – Ministry of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and finance for some vaccines developed to fight respiratory viruses COVID-19 And cold.
Robert F. Kennedy JR. In a statement on Tuesday, a total of 22 projects will be stopped for the development of vaccines using MRNA technology.
Kennedy’s decision to terminate projects, decision series This has long been fully implemented in the country’s health department. Kennedy has RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDATIONS Around Covid-19 shots, Shooting the panel This makes vaccine suggestions and refused to present a strong approval of vaccines measles epidemic It got worse.
Health Secretary, MRNA vaccines in a video in a video in a video, influenza, Covid-19 and H5N1, such as protection against viruses, such as Pfizer and Moderna, including leading pharmaceutical companies announced the decision to cancel the projects managed by the leading pharmaceutical companies.
Kennedy said, uz We give priority to the development of safer, wider vaccine strategies such as full virus vaccines and new platforms that do not collapse when viruses are mutated to replace problematic MRNA programs, ”Kennedy said.
Infectious illness experts loan the MRNA technology used in vaccines is safe and their development during the first Trump administration by slowing down the 2020 coronavirus pandemia. Future Pandemiler will be more difficult to stop without MRNA’s help.
Mike Oterholm, a specialist in Infectious Diseases and Pandemic Preparats at the University of Minnesota, said, “I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in 50 years,” he said.
He said that MRNA technology offers fast production advantages, which are very important in the case of a new pandem that requires a new vaccine.
Vaccine Specialist at Philadelphia Children’s Hospital. Paul Offit states that the shelves of MRNA projects are short -sized.
“It certainly saved millions of lives, Off Offit said from the available MRNA vaccines.
Scientists use MRNA for more than infectious disease vaccines, and researchers around the world investigate the use of cancer immunotherapies. Earlier this year, at the White House, billionaire technology entrepreneur Larry Ellison praised MRNA for the potential to treat cancer.
Traditionally, vaccines usually require fragments that grow in chicken eggs or giant cells, then purify this material. The MRNA approach starts with a genetic code particle with instructions for protein. Scientists choose to target protein, make it sufficient to trigger the plan and the body’s immune protection – it produces its own vaccine dose.
On Tuesday, HHS said that “other uses of MRNA technology in the section are not affected by this announcement”.
MRNA technology is used as approved COVID-19 And RSV Filming has not yet been approved for a flu vaccine. Modernna, A combination and flu was studying MRNA throwingHe said he believed that MRNA could accelerate the production of flu beats compared to traditional vaccines.
Abandoned MRNA projects point to “a change in vaccine development priorities, and added that in a statement of the health department, it will start to öyle invest in better solutions”.
Kennedy said, “Let’s be clear, HHS supports safe, effective vaccines for every American who wants them,” Kennedy said.
Hours later, on Tuesday, at a press conference in Alaska, Anchorage, Kennedy, as well as two Republican US senators of the state, said that working on an alternative continued.
He said that “universal vaccine izun imitating“ natural immunity olur is the focal point of the administration.
“We can be effective – we believe it will be effective – not only coronaviruses, but also flu,” he said.
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Associated Press writers Lauran Neergaard in Washington, Mike Stobbe in New York and Becky Bohrer in Juneau contributed.
