The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to cancel $ 500M (£ 376M) for MRNA vaccines, developed to combat viruses such as Flu and Kovid -19.
The HHS said that the move would affect 22 projects, headed by major pharmaceutical companies, including physical and modern for vaccines against bird flu and other viruses.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior, a vaccine skeptical, announced that he was drawing funds on claims that “MRNA technology causes more risk than advantages for these respiratory virus”.
Doctors and health experts have criticized Kennedy’s safety and efficacy and health policies for a long time interrogation of his debut ideas.
The development of MRNA vaccines to target Covid-19 was important in slowing down the epidemic and saving millions of people, said Paul Fund, Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia.
Dr. The offt told the BBC that Kennedy’s move put America in a “more dangerous” position to respond to any potential future epidemic, as the MRNA vaccine has a small development cycle, which is why they were able to respond to Kovid epidemic.
In a statement, Kennedy said that his team “reviewed science, listened to experts, and acted.”[T]He said that these vaccines fail to protect effectively from upper respiratory infections such as Kovid and Flu, “he said.
He said that the department was “transferring funds towards safe, broad vaccine platforms that also remain effective as virus mutations”.
But MRNA vaccines are “remarkably safe” and are important to help prevent serious infections from viruses such as Kovid, who said that the rotavirus vaccine invented.
The HHS stated that the projects that run the projects will focus on platforms with the biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), “strong security records and transparent clinical and manufacturing data practices”.
While some vaccines use a passive virus to trigger an immune response, MRNA work by teaching cells to work how to make protein that can trigger an immune response. Modern and physic mRNA vaccines were tested before rolling out in thousands and found to be safe and effective.
Since assuming office, Kennedy has taken several steps to change how the nation’s health department develops and controls vaccines.
In June, he fired all 17 members of a committee, which release official government recommendations on vaccination, with some people who have criticized vaccine safety and efficacy.
They also removed the covid vaccine from the recommended vaccination schedule center of disease control and prevention for healthy children and pregnant women.
