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Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines
The Washington Post ^ | August 12, 2025 | Jay Bhattacharya

Posted on 08/24/2025 10:35:38 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to wind down its mRNA vaccine development activities marks a necessary pivot in how we steward public health innovations in vaccines. The right path requires us to consider the inherent strengths and weaknesses of a technology as well as any alternatives, along with public attitudes and experience with the technology.

The mRNA platform is promising technology. I do not dispute its potential. In the future, it may yet deliver breakthroughs in treating diseases such as cancer, and HHS is continuing to invest in ongoing research on applications in oncology and other complex diseases. But as a vaccine intended for broad public use, especially during a public health emergency, the platform has failed a crucial test: earning public trust. No matter how elegant the science, a platform that lacks credibility among the people it seeks to protect cannot fulfill its public health mission.

It is critical to understand the development of the mRNA coronavirus vaccines in the context of the very successful Operation Warp Speed launched during the first Trump administration. Operation Warp Speed represented a paradigm shift in how the government should invest in new technologies and solutions and embrace strategic investments in public-private partnerships, innovation in trial design and removal of bureaucratic red tape to allow parallel rather than sequential vaccine development. It produced a new vaccine in record time and also helped develop a successful monoclonal antibody.

Unfortunately, the Biden administration did not manage public trust in the coronavirus vaccines, largely because it chose a strategy of mandates rather than a risk-based approach and did not properly acknowledge Americans’ growing concerns regarding safety and effectiveness.

Consider the data: In a late 2024 Pew...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: mrna

1 posted on 08/24/2025 10:35:38 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Because MRNA killed people?


2 posted on 08/24/2025 10:37:26 AM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“in the context of the very successful Operation Warp Speed”

When you know they’re just puppets saying whatever is asked of them.


3 posted on 08/24/2025 10:37:50 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Veto!

We have a winner!! Because they kill people!! Or…is it because few get it anymore and they have to move on to a new killer vaccine?


4 posted on 08/24/2025 10:41:55 AM PDT by albie
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They don’t work.

It’s not hard to understand.


5 posted on 08/24/2025 10:44:26 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When the inventor and 1st patent holder (Dr Robert Malone in 1990)of mRNA vaccines says ‘they don’t work’ and ‘they’re dangerous’ I tend to shy away from letting anyone jab me with it.
When Wikipedia says he spreads vaccine disinformation you can take that as a striking endorsement for his honesty.


6 posted on 08/24/2025 10:50:18 AM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (When it comes to 'Vast Conspiracies' the Dems always mix up left and right. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I remember the change in direction about the vaccine Biden and Harris made after they were "elected" in 2020.

July 28, 2020: Joe Biden suggests the coronavirus vaccine won't be "real" and may not be "safe."

August 6, 2020: Biden says the vaccine is "not likely to go through all the tests that needs to be and the trials that are needed to be done."

September 3, 2020: Biden asks "Who's going to take the shot? Are you going to be the first one to say sign me up?"

September 6, 2020: Kamala Harris says "I think that's going to be an issue" when asked if she would get an approved coronavirus vaccine.

September 7, 2020: Biden said he would take the coronavirus vaccine "only if we knew all of what went into it.

When CNN asked Kamala Harris if she would take the vaccine once it's approved, she refused to answer: "Well, I think that's going to be an issue for all of us. I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump."

But after November it was mandatory shots for everyone. It was a cynical reversal worthy of 1984.
7 posted on 08/24/2025 10:51:22 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I refuse to call the left "progressive" because I do not see slavery to the government as progress.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A virus was conceived by artificial means and a supposed shot (which was already concocted) to alleviate said MONSTER virus was SOLD to governments who FORCED these MRNA delivered drugs upon a percentage of the public (who actually paid for them) which ended up creating more death than if never administering these drugs? I Thank God I had the distrust of the agencies and never took anything they were doling out. What was truly sad was the amount of people I knew who actually believed the claptrap fed to them. Now those who took these shots say not a word after witnessing all the death the evil,greedy bastards and bitches (who omitted themselves) who designed the whole situation.


8 posted on 08/24/2025 10:58:19 AM PDT by mythenjoseph (Thats a good line there!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Jay is trying to polish a turd!


9 posted on 08/24/2025 11:13:55 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: Veto!

And continues to injure and kill.


10 posted on 08/24/2025 11:19:12 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: mewzilla

Still wondering about the safety of the nation’s blood supply...


11 posted on 08/24/2025 11:19:53 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: KarlInOhio

I finally gave in and got the stupid shot just to shut up my adult daughter who had swallowed the Kool-Aid. Fortunately, no side-effects (yet). At this point in my long life’s journey I’m likely to die of something else.


12 posted on 08/24/2025 11:38:50 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here is the article that is not behind the pay wall:

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post-597/20250813/281827174849436


13 posted on 08/24/2025 11:43:49 AM PDT by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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To: NEWwoman
Here is the article that is not behind the pay wall:

Congratulations. You just violated the FR consent decree.

14 posted on 08/24/2025 11:46:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Veto!

Well, there’s that…
The more people know someone dead or damaged, the less “ public confidence”


15 posted on 08/24/2025 2:19:27 PM PDT by silverleaf (M:“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Veto!

indeed: Grock3 says the VAERS database list over 19,000 people were killed by the mRNA vaccines ...


16 posted on 08/24/2025 3:01:32 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: KarlInOhio

i knew the whole covid vax thing was absolutely a deadly scam when the biden administration’s medical authorities claimed that the covid injections never left the injection site, thus trying to pretend like the very foundation of modern medicine, namely the discovery of the circulation system was bogus ...


17 posted on 08/24/2025 3:05:53 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: catnipman

I asked my MD if I should get one.

He smiled and said, “You look very healthy to me. Come back in six months.”

He did not go to med school in the USA where pharmaceutical companies contribute huge amounts of $$$$$. Nigerian doc, best ever.


18 posted on 08/24/2025 3:17:40 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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