RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Health and Human Services volition cancel contracts and propulsion backing for immoderate vaccines that are being developed to combat respiratory viruses similar COVID-19 and the flu.

NOTE: The video is from a erstwhile report.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the wellness caput and a longtime vaccine critic, announced successful a connection Tuesday that $500 cardinal worthy of vaccine improvement projects, each utilizing mRNA technology, volition beryllium halted.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during an lawsuit successful the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, successful Washington.

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The projects - 22 of them - are being led by immoderate of the nation's starring pharmaceutical companies similar Pfizer and Moderna to forestall flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.

The mRNA vaccines are credited with slowing the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

Kennedy said successful the Tuesday connection that helium wants the wellness section to determination distant from mRNA vaccines, calling connected the section to commencement "investing successful amended solutions." He provided nary details connected what those technologies mightiness be.