Health Experts Criticize Administration’s Decision To Cut Research Funding For mRNA Projects

The Washington Post (8/6, Johnson, Weber) reports that the Administration’s “decision to terminate hundreds of millions of dollars to develop mRNA vaccines and treatments imperils the country’s ability to fight future pandemics and is built on false or misleading claims about the technology, public health experts said.” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “has criticized mRNA vaccines, arguing that they are ineffective at fighting upper respiratory infections and keeping up with the mutations of a virus.” Researchers fear the Administration’s “criticism of the mRNA technology would have a chilling effect on one of the most promising fields in medicine.” The Post interviewed six scientific and medical experts who “said Kennedy and HHS offered misleading assessments of mRNA technology as they announced the termination of research.”