WASHINGTON — The Division of Well being and Human Companies will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines which are being developed to struggle respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the well being secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, introduced in a press release Tuesday that $500 million price of vaccine improvement tasks, all utilizing mRNA expertise, might be halted.
The tasks — 22 of them — are being led by a few of the nation’s main pharmaceutical firms like Pfizer and Moderna to forestall flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.
The mRNA vaccines are credited with slowing the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
Kennedy stated within the Tuesday assertion that he desires the well being division to maneuver away from mRNA vaccines, calling on the division to start out “investing in better solutions.” He offered no particulars on what these applied sciences is perhaps.
