Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams – who had previously served during the Trump administration – on Sunday argued that “people are going to die” If the US MRNA vaccine gets away from development, Robert F. Kennedy Junior stopped around $ 500 million in the research fund.
Kennedy Announced Last week’s administration was canceling 22 MRNA vaccine development projects, Saying The vaccines “fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections such as covid and flu.” Projects were funded through Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or Bird. Kennedy stated that the funds would be transferred to “safe, broad vaccine platforms which are also effective as virus mutations.”
Adams, who appeared on Sunday at the Nation “with Margaret Brainon, said that the claims about the efficacy of MRNA vaccines of Kennedy” are not just not true ” -Citing their effectiveness in Cowid -19 epidemic, during which hundreds of millions of people took the MRNA usage of the Figure and Modern.
“We know that from the most conservative estimates, MRNA technology has saved 2 million lives,” Adams said. “This helped us develop Covid-19 vaccines in record time. And this is quite clearly, President Trump’s greatest achievement.”
The MRNA technology was the central for operation war speed, a public -private partnership, aimed at the Kovid -19 vaccine at the beginning of the Koronwirus epidemic near the end of the first term of Mr. Trump. If the US had trusted the old vaccine technology, it could have taken an additional time of 18 to 24 months to develop the Kovid -19 shots, said Adams said.
Asked about Kennedy’s move by CBS News earlier this week, Mr. Trump said, “Operation warp speed, whether you are Republican or Democrat, is considered one of the most incredible things ever in the country,” Given that he had upcoming meetings on the subject.
Adams, who was involved in Operation War Speed Attempts, said it is “attractive” for him, as Mr. Trump and his colleagues discuss if he deserves the Nobel Prize, “the thing that he should be considered for the Nobel Prize is trying to weaken his health secretary.”
Former Surgeon General said that MRNA is a type of natural molecule that is present in the body and “the recipe is operated like a card that tells your body how to make a protein.”
Beyond Covid-19, Adams stated that technology “helps us develop vaccines and new remedies in other fields”-from cancer and HIV to flu and zika virus.
“These are advances that are no longer going to happen,” Adams said. “People are going to die because we are cutting less funding for this technique.”
After the shooting of Atlanta CDC, Adams said “Secretary Kennedy has failed in his first major exam”
Adams also criticized Kennedy for his response Shooting Center for disease control and prevention buildings in Atlanta on Friday. Investigators are looking at the potential objectives, including the possibility that the suspect believed that he was ill of the covid vaccine, several sources reported. CBS News,
“How do you respond to a crisis, defines a leader. Quite clearly, Secretary Kennedy has failed in his first major test in this regard,” Adams accused Kennedy of releasing “tapid response” for shooting, “and said,” And it is not that his inflammatory rhetoric in the past. “
One in statement On Friday, Kennedy said, “No one should face violence while working to protect the health of others.” But Adams argued that Kennedy “has not unevenly condemned violence.”
“There is one outside,” Adams said. “If you do not believe that people are working to protect the public, it means that violence is okay, at least in the eyes of some people.”
Former Surgeon General said that the people of CDC were calling him after shooting, which asked him to make a public statement “because they felt under the attack.”
“They didn’t know if it was going to continue,” Adams said. “They were scared, and they wanted someone, someone who felt that there is a public voice, to go out and say,” This is wrong. The violence is wrong. ” ,
