08/06/2025

RFK, Jr. to Cancel $500 Million in Funding for Vaccine Development

The 22 projects are led by major pharmaceutical companies

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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