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The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.

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-- NPR (@npr.org) Aug 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM

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... If anyone needed a reminder that US health secretary and fervent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has no background in science or medicine, look no further than the video he posted on social media Tuesday evening.

In the two-and-a-half-minute clip, Kennedy announced that he is cancelling nearly $500 million in funding for the development of mRNA-based vaccines against diseases that pose pandemic threats. ...

Kennedy is generally opposed to vaccines, but he is particularly hostile to mRNA-based vaccines. Since the remarkably successful debut of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic"which were developed and mass-produced with unprecedented speed"Kennedy has continually disparaged and spread misinformation about them.

In the video on Tuesday, Kennedy continued that trend, erroneously saying that, "as the pandemic showed us, mRNA vaccines don't perform well against viruses that infect the upper respiratory tract."

In reality, COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have saved more than 3 million lives in the US in just the first two years of the pandemic and additionally prevented more than 18 million hospitalizations in the US in that time. Nearly all COVID-19 vaccines used in the US are mRNA-based. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-07 12:50 PM | Reply

The article continues ...

... However, Kennedy's video only went more off the rails from there. He continued on with this nonsensical explanation: ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-07 12:51 PM | Reply

It seems to be coming obvious that Sec Kennedy has not a clue about health.

Trump calls RFK Jr three or four times a week' with the same question
www.the-independent.com

... Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr said that President Donald Trump calls him up "three or four times a week" to hound him with the same question.

Kennedy was speaking at an event Monday with Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to push a policy banning sugary drinks, candy and junk food from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as part of his "Make America Healthy Again" agenda.

Six months into his second term, Trump wants to know "why aren't people healthier yet," Kennedy told reporters at the press conference. ...


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-07 10:01 PM | Reply

So, not only does Sec Kennedy seem to be clueless about actual health issues, Pres Trump seems to be concerned that his "best and brightest" pick may not be.

Quelle surprise.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-07 10:03 PM | Reply

Kakistrocrasty's Poster Boy.

#5 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-08-08 06:03 PM | Reply

He's a literal imbecile.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-08 06:50 PM | Reply

"Six months into his second term, Trump wants to know "why aren't people healthier yet," "

After the tariffs kneecap everyone that isn't a billionaire, we'll all be thinner, that's for sure.

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-08 06:51 PM | Reply

"If you're very, very stupid, how can you possibly realize that you're very, very stupid? You'd have to be relatively intelligent to realize how stupid you really are. This explains almost the entirety of Fox News." (and the gop) "

John Cleese

#8 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-08-08 07:50 PM | Reply

Sounds just like JPW. Pseudo-science garbage from uneducated boobs.

#9 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-08-08 10:12 PM | Reply

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