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 their views.
Peter Luri, a former officer of the US Food and Drug Administration, said that the development of MRNA vaccines to target Covid -19 was important in slowing down the epidemic and saving millions of people.
He told the BBC that change was America “Fold his back on one of the most promising tools to fight the next 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”.
Kennedy also claimed that MRNA vaccines “can help encourage new mutation and actually prolong epidemics as the virus is constantly mutant to avoid the protective effects of the vaccine”.
Health experts have said that the viruses, regardless of the vaccination, are present.
Director of Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia, Dr. The Paul offt said that every year the flu virus mutters, regardless of the mutations, whether people are vaccinated, while the measles virus has not been mutated in the virus, most people despite vaccination with an MRNA shot.
He said that MRNA vaccines are “remarkably safe” and is a key to help prevent severe infection from viruses such as Kovid.
The HHS stated that the department running the vaccine projects, biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) would “focus on platforms with 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.
Dr. who invented the rotavirus vaccine. The offt said that funding cancellation could put the US in a “more dangerous” position to respond to any possible future epidemic. He said that MRNA vaccines have a small development cycle, which is why they were important to respond to the Kovid epidemic.
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.
