Making America Sick Again, Cont.

 

 

Medical illiterate Brainworm continues to Make America Sick Again with his aggressive anti- vaccine agenda:

The Trump administration is terminating 22 contracts focused on developing mRNA vaccines and winding down additional federal investments in mRNA technology, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday.

Many scientists and infectious disease experts swiftly denounced the move as a broadside on an area of research seen as particularly promising after its use in rapidly developing Covid vaccines.

The projects that are being axed were funded by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a Department of Health and Human Services program that works with the pharmaceutical industry to develop vaccines and other countermeasures for public health emergencies.

“This isn’t just about vaccines,” Rick Bright, who directed BARDA from 2016 to 2020, said in a text message. “It’s about whether we’ll be ready when the next crisis hits. Cutting mRNA development now puts every American at greater risk.”

“The Covid pandemic showed us what’s possible when science moves fast,” he added. “Dismantling that momentum now is like disbanding the fire department because the fire’s out.”

Kennedy said Tuesday that the terminated contracts were worth nearly $500 million. Among them is an award to the University of Texas Medical Branch and the biotechnology company Moderna to develop an mRNA-based vaccine for H5N1, the strain of bird flu that has infected dozens of people in the United States... (our emphasis)

This comes as a new COVID variant "Stratus" is spreading in the U.S. and around the world.  What could possibly go wrong?!  Of course, the likelihood the public will get scientifically- based decisions and accurate real-time information about COVID or other disease spread may be greatly diminished due to Brainworm's and the Malignant Fascist's actions to lay off nearly 3,000 Centers for Disease Control staff and scrub or purge data at the CDC to accommodate their mindless vendettas.

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(Image:  Our Nation's health is entrusted to this psycho / via CBS News)