{"id":9006,"date":"2025-08-06T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9006"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T13:03:53","slug":"rfk-jr-pulls-500-million-in-funding-for-vaccine-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/rfk-jr-pulls-500-million-in-funding-for-vaccine-development\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.<\/p>\n

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> announced in a statement Tuesday that 22 projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines using mRNA technology will be halted.<\/p>\n

Kennedy’s decision to terminate the projects is the latest in a string of decisions<\/a> that have put the longtime vaccine critic’s doubts about shots into full effect at the nation’s health department. Kennedy has pulled back recommendations<\/a> around the COVID-19 shots, fired the panel<\/a> that makes vaccine recommendations, and refused to offer a vigorous endorsement of vaccinations as a measles outbreak<\/a> worsened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.<\/p>\n

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> announced in a statement Tuesday that 22 projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines using mRNA technology will be halted.<\/p>\n

Kennedy’s decision to terminate the projects is the latest in a string of decisions<\/a> that have put the longtime vaccine critic’s doubts about shots into full effect at the nation’s health department. Kennedy has pulled back recommendations<\/a> around the COVID-19 shots, fired the panel<\/a> that makes vaccine recommendations, and refused to offer a vigorous endorsement of vaccinations as a measles outbreak<\/a> worsened.<\/p>\n

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