A $500 million reduction in US mRNA vaccine research threatens to hinder advances in a technology that proved essential during the Covid pandemic. This funding cut reflects a growing distrust in vaccines, exacerbated by leadership dismissals within health committees that prioritize ideology over scientific evidence. Critics warn that the fall in vaccine investment could destabilize global health emergency preparedness. Recent violence against health institutions, linked to vaccine discontent, underscores the danger surrounding vaccine misinformation. Experts caution that undermining vaccine technology jeopardizes collective public health responses to future pandemics.
The budgetary gap slows the progress of a promising technology that proved effective during the Covid pandemic and is the great hope for quickly halting other similar public health threats.
The excuse for the cutbacks is that the technology poses more risks than benefits, something unsupported by scientific evidence: thanks to it, the Covid pandemic changed its course.
Kennedy has taken advantage of a breeding ground for vaccine resistance that Donald Trump himself fueled.
If the United States sneezes, the world catches a cold, summarizes ISGlobal Health Institute immunologist Adelaida Sarukhan, who warns of an enormous impact on the response capacity to a new pathogen.
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