PBS ran an important segment on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s decision to cancel $500 million in grants to study mNRA vaccine grants. These are the vaccines that broke the COVID pandemic.
PBS interviewed scientists about this surprise decision. If you would like to see the interviews, open the link.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development has left many public health experts and scientists stunned.
mRNA technology was central in the battle against COVID and can be developed more quickly than traditional vaccines. But anti-vaccine communities and skeptics don’t trust its safety.
Geoff Bennett spoke with Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, about the latest in mRNA vaccine research and the implications of Kennedy’s move.
“I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body,” Osterholm said.
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The Trumpanistas are turning this country into a cultural and scientific backwater with Victorian-era disparities of wealth and health. This is what happens when you elect ignorant morons who appoint ignorant morons. Knowledge matters.
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Calling them morons is polite in my opinion. What they are doing is evil, not dumb. They are directly targeting any services, social safety nets and benefits that regular Americans depend on so they can give a tax cut to the super rich.
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Yes, you are right. Moron is the first word that comes to my mind when I think of the orange buffoon in the White House, but he is far worse than simply stupid. He is a deeply sick person. And yes, evil.
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But I was thinking, in particular, of what people like RFK, Jr., and Trump think about mRNA vaccines, which is nothing. The know precisely nothing about these. And they are too stupid to understand how little they know.
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When and how does this catastrophe end? I have long thought that this country is too big and culturally disparate to be governed sanely. I often wish that there were two countries–one that could elect sane, noncriminal leaders, and another that could elect evil twits like Mike Johnson and then reap the consequences of what they sow. Imagine two such countries fifty years on. One thriving like, say, Denmark and Germany, and one a theocratic backwater like, I don’t know, hell.
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“mNRA vaccine”
Freudian Slip?? A vaccine against the NRA would be wonderful!!!
Bobbi Eisenberg 😄
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