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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to cancel $ 500 million (£ 376 million) in the financing of mRNA vaccine, which are developed to combat viruses such as flu and Covid-19.
This step will affect 22 projects headed by major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, for bird flu vaccines and other viruses, HHS said.
Health Minister Robert F Kennedy -Youth, a vaccine that skeptically announced that it attracts funding for saying that “mRNA technology is more risks than good for these respiratory viruses.”
Doctors and experts in the field of health have criticized Kennedy’s long -term interrogation on vaccine safety and efficiency and his views on health policy.
The development of mRNA vaccine for orientation to Covid-19 was critical to help slow the pandemia and save millions of lives, said Peter Luri, a former nutrition official.
He said the BBC that the changes were the US, “turning to one of the most promising tools to combat the next pandemic.”
In his statement, Kennedy stated that his team “considered science, listened to experts and acted.” “(T) it shows that these vaccines cannot effectively protect against upper respiratory tract infections such as Covid and Flu,” he said.
He said the department moves financing for “safer and wider vaccine platforms that remain effective even when the viruses mutate.”
Kennedy also claimed that MRNA vaccines can help “encourage new mutations and can actually extend the pandemic as the virus is constantly mutated to avoid the protective effects of the vaccine.”
Health experts said the viruses mutated regardless of whether there are vaccines for them.
D -ROLUS ACTIPT, Director of the Center for Education at the Philadelphia Children’s Hospital, noted that the influenza virus mutated every year, regardless of whether there are people’s vaccinations, while the measles virus did not mutate, despite the fact that most people who are vaccinated with mRNA shot.
He said the MRNA vaccines are “extremely safe” and the key to preventing severe viruses such as Covid-19.
HHS noted that the department that manages the projects of the vaccine, the biomedical expanded body of research and development (Barda) will focus on “platforms with stronger safety and transparent clinical data records”.
While some vaccines use an inactivated virus to cause an immune response, mRNA vaccines work, teaching cells how to make proteins that can cause an immune response. MRNK -Moderna and Pfizer -have been checked in thousands before they unfold and were recognized as safe and effective.
The D -IP, which invented the rotavirus vaccine, said the cancellation of financing could put the United States in a “more dangerous” position to respond to any potential future pandemic. He noted that mRNA vaccines are shorter development cycle, and therefore they were crucial to respond to the COVID-19 pandemia.
Since Kennedy, he has taken a number of steps to transform the country’s health department and regulates the vaccine.
In June, he fired all 17 members of the committee, which issues the government’s official recommendations on the rootstock, replacing them with some people who criticized the safety and efficiency of the vaccines.
It also removed the COVID-19 vaccine from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which is recommended for the immunization schedule for healthy children and pregnant women.
