The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses, including COVID-19 and the flu.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted. The mRNA vaccines are credited with slowing the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.
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