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RFK JR. TAKES HAMMER TO TWO MAJOR VACCINE DEVELOPMENTS  
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Hafiz Rashid
February 27, 2025
The New Republic
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_ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous
anti-vax views at HHS. _

, Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images

 

Multiple vaccine projects have been paused by the Department of Health
and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 

Kennedy paused a multimillion-dollar project
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to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food
and Drug Administration canceled
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an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine,
an advisory committee said Wednesday. 

The Covid project was a $460 million contract with Vaxart to develop a
new Covid vaccine in pill form, with 10,000 people scheduled to begin
clinical trials on Monday. Of that, $240 million was reportedly
already authorized for the preliminary study.

“While it is crucial that the Department [of] Health and Human
Services support pandemic preparedness, four years of the Biden
administration’s failed oversight have made it necessary to review
agreements for vaccine production, including Vaxart’s,” Kennedy
said, according to Fox News
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“I look forward to working with Vaxart and medical experts to ensure
this work produces safe, effective, and fiscal-minded vaccine
technology,” Kennedy added. 

Meanwhile, the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products
Advisory Committee, or VRBPAC, was scheduled to meet in March to
discuss the strains that would be included in next season’s flu
shot, but federal officials told the committee in an email Wednesday
that the meeting was canceled, said committee member Dr. Paul Offit,
director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia.

Offit told NBC News
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that no explanation was given for the cancellation of the yearly
spring meeting, which comes in the middle of a flu season in which 86
children and 19,000 adults have died, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
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In an email to NBC, Norman Baylor, a former director of the FDA’s
Office of Vaccine Research and Review, said, “I’m quite shocked.
As you know, the VRBPAC is critical for making the decision on strain
selection for the next influenza vaccine season.” Last week, an
upcoming CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was also postponed
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These moves send a disturbing message that Kennedy’s anti-vaccine
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views are starting to influence health policy. On Wednesday, the
secretary already had an alarming, nonchalant response
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to the first American measles death in a decade. Now it seems American
public health efforts could experience a serious setback as long as
President Trump and Kennedy are in government.

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