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US scrapping $500m of vaccine projects
America's vaccine-sceptic health secretary has announced $500m (£375.8m) worth of cuts to their development in the country.
The US health department is cancelling contracts and pulling funding for jabs to fight viruses like COVID-19 and the flu, it was announced on Tuesday. Robert F Kennedy Jr, known as RFK Jr, said 22 projects developing mRNA vaccines will be halted.
It is the latest in a series of decisions to reduce US vaccine programmes. Read more: Who is Donald Trump's health chief? The health secretary has fired the panel that makes vaccine recommendations, reduced recommendations for COVID-19 shots, and refused to endorse vaccines despite a worsening measles outbreak.
RFK Jr claims the US will now prioritise "safer, broader vaccine strategies, like whole-virus vaccines and novel platforms that don't collapse when viruses mutate". Responding to the announcement of cuts, Mike Osterholm, a University of Minnesota expert on infectious diseases and pandemic preparations, said: "I don't think I've seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business." Dr Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said RFK Jr's move was short-sighted and that mRNA vaccines "certainly saved millions of lives.
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