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The Trump administration cancels decades of approximately $ 500 million to develop the RNA vaccines to protect the nation from future viral threats. This step has broken technology critics, but it is horrific from many public health and biological security experts.

Federalism The Authority for the Authority’s Research and Development, BiomediaOr that cold, which oversees the country’s defenses against biological attacks, ends 22 contracts with university researchers and private companies to develop new uses of the Merseuled RNA technology.

The MRNA technology was used by the first Trump administration to create the most common Covid-19 vaccines, which is widely considered a medical victory that saved millions of lives safely and effectively. However, vaccine delegations during the epidemic planted a fierce hatred towards technology, which led to widespread general opposition.

"Let me be completely clear: HHS supports safe and effective vaccines for every American who wants one," Kennedy said in a video to explain resolution. "For this reason, we go beyond the limits of the Rena sent to the respiratory viruses and investing in better solutions."

The advertisement announced many who study infectious diseases.

"This may be the most dangerous judgment on the public health that I saw during the fifty years in this work," He says Michael OstohmWhich runs the Center for Research and Policy of Infectious Diseases at the University of Minnesota. "It is baseless and we will pay a huge price in terms of diseases and deaths. I am very worried about it."

But the decision was welcomed by vaccine critics like the group Defending children’s healthHe founded Kennedy himself.

"While we believe that flexible vaccines should be transferred from the market, the announcement is a positive step towards protecting public health," Mary Hollande, head of the group and CEO, said in a statement.

Jennifer Nuzu It is very different. It runs the Braun University General Health Center Center, and says that this step can lead to the erosion of future epidemics.

"This is a very disappointing development," She says. "When there is the next epidemic, we will be arrested equally. It leaves the country completely weak."

Nuzzo and others are not only concerned about the next epidemic. Several experts say that the Mercy Rena vaccines will provide a decisive defense and a strong defense against vital experts.

"I think it exposes the national security of the United States," He says Chris MikensHe is a senior management official in the Trump administration. "The United States can be placed in the strategic national security defect and will be a major threat to the national security of the United States."

When announcing his decision, Kennedy claimed that the Covid-19 vaccines were inappropriate and ineffective, helped to push the development of the virus and could not keep up with the new mutations.

"After reviewing the science and consultations, the major experts in NIH and FDA, HHS decided that MRNA technology poses greater risks of benefits against these respiratory viruses," Kennedy said.

Several external experts say Kennedy’s claims are wrong.

"His knowledge is backward, as it is often," Dr. Peter HotzDean of the Bilor College of Medicine, which runs the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. "This technology is installed for emerging respiratory viruses or respiratory viruses. It is very safe and was incredibly effective."

Merna vaccines work by stimulating the immune system using a major virus protein. Kennedy says that the federal government is invested instead in an alternative technology that uses the entire killer viruses and can be produced "Natural immunity."

Experts say that while this technology has produced effective vaccines, it is a much oldest approach that can contain safety problems and not nearly intelligence in responding to new threats.

"It is not responsible for stripping funding from future technologies with great potential and turning them towards outdated old technologies," He says Rick BrightWho ran cold during the first Trump administration. "We take our country from 2025 to 1940 and all know that this is a recipe for disasters and failure."

Experts say that the technology of the Merseurated RNA is the only vaccine technique that can be developed quickly enough to respond quickly to threaten new pathogens.

"In the event of an outbreak, when you face a fast virus-whether it is nature or the discount of the nation-state-the speed is the name of the game," Bright says.

Management It was previously canceled Hold $ 766 million with the modern vaccine company to develop a flexible vaccine to protect people from influenza breeds with the possibilities of the epidemic.

Many of the fear of fear, such as this, will continue to undermine the confidence of the public in vaccines in general and specifically technology, which also shows a promise to treat diseases, most notably cancer.

"The harmful effect is not only in the contracts they cancel, but they are trying to clarify the issue to the public that the MRNA technology does not work very well and that it is unsafe." Hawtez says. "This is not true at all."

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