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RFK Jr cancels $500 million in mRNA research, HHS to prioritize 'safer' vaccine alternatives
Fox News ^ | Published August 5, 2025 6:17pm EDT | Alec Schemmel Fox News

Posted on 08/07/2025 9:03:07 AM PDT by FreeReign

A total of 22 mRNA vaccine development contracts totaling roughly $500 million have been canceled, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Tuesday.

The mRNA investments were part of the government's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a division of HHS that drives some of the country's most advanced scientific research, such as the development of vaccines, drugs and other tools to fight national health threats. The termination of the 22 BARDA contracts follows a several-weeks-long internal review to determine a path forward when it comes to these investments.

"We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted," HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday. "BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate."

n a short video explaining the move, Kennedy said the benefits simply do not outweigh the risks associated with mRNA vaccines.

Kennedy went on to point out that not only do mRNA vaccines – as shown during the COVID-19 pandemic – not perform well against viruses that infect the upper respiratory tract, but they also do not defend against mutations of the viruses they are intended to go after.

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This article is from two days ago. I didn't see much about this on FR. Perhaps I missed it.

I consider it big news.

1 posted on 08/07/2025 9:03:07 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

Yay. Prayers for all the reforms to be LASTING in consequence and not just flash in the pan.

Vaccines are not ALL bad. They are only bad when used as tools for sole profit and “gain of function.” 🙄


2 posted on 08/07/2025 9:07:36 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege ( )
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To: FreeReign

After the billions of dollars the drug companies made off their “vaccines” I think that they can afford to bankroll their own research if they think they can get people to take those poisons without a gun to their heads.


3 posted on 08/07/2025 9:32:19 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: FreeReign

Which companies?


4 posted on 08/07/2025 9:36:11 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Vendome
Which companies?

All doing HHS funded research?

5 posted on 08/07/2025 9:40:51 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

RFK jr withdrew support for mRNA vaccine development FOR RESPIRATORY VIRUSES.

The mRNA technology has interesting potential applications in cancer and some congenital defects, and development in those areas is continuing.


6 posted on 08/07/2025 10:09:51 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: Jim Noble

Thanks.


7 posted on 08/07/2025 10:47:15 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign; Pontiac; CondoleezzaProtege; Jim Noble

I have a problem with mRNA vaccine development, berceuse too many articles also talk about gain of function, which is the politically correct term for biological warfare.


8 posted on 08/07/2025 12:09:11 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: FreeReign
HHS said the $500 million in contract cancellations covered twenty-two different projects, all managed by BARDA, the government’s hybrid health-military-espionage biomedical skunkworks, a mutant love baby between DARPA and anthrax vaccines. After being cloned from DARPA in 2006, BARDA has spent money like a tipsy Ukrainian oligarch’s wife, with free license to invest in unsupervised “lone-bidder” contracts and unaccountable, high-risk “moonshot” projects.

Like what kind of projects, you ask? Haha, never mind, silly, because BARDA awards are often classified or redacted. Don’t get mad. It’s for your own good. (All of it is ironically hilarious, because the only people who don’t know what’s going on are the people who paying the tab. Everyone else —scientists, military, congresspeople, and every spook in the world— know exactly what’s happening. You can’t hide a large-scale science operation from them. Please.

Since 2006, BARDA’s tangible accomplishments can only be measured by billions spent. Its only visible achievement is a “national stockpile” of slowly expiring vaccines for pandemics that never happened and untested miracle drugs nobody is taking.

If it sounds like a black-site, off-books funding operation for big pharma, well, you can decide for yourself.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/gasbags-wednesday-august-6-2025-c

9 posted on 08/07/2025 2:13:49 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: FreeReign

good


10 posted on 08/07/2025 2:33:52 PM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: FreeReign; nickcarraway; ransomnote; Jane Long
Get a load of this...

mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines: The intracellular aggregation of encoded spike monomers and their subunits as a cause of cardiac side effects

...Our findings reveal that numerous off-target products are produced by mRNA-based corona vaccines following translation of the encoded spike monomers. These off-target products may be responsible for both acute vaccination reactions and long-term side effects.

I won't print what I'm thinking.

11 posted on 08/09/2025 8:10:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: mewzilla; nickcarraway; ransomnote; Jane Long
And I'll just toss this in from 2022, on a related note

Note the damn date.

mRNA Vaccines: Why Is the Biology of Retroposition Ignored?

...This implies that we urgently need experimental studies that would rigorously test for the potential retroposition of vaccine mRNAs. At present, the insertional mutagenesis safety of mRNA-based vaccines should be considered unresolved...

They knew.

12 posted on 08/09/2025 8:17:22 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...


13 posted on 08/09/2025 8:23:07 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: mewzilla; kiryandil; grey_whiskers

FR $$s so sad.

They Dugway Deep into pu$hing these horrid jabs.


14 posted on 08/09/2025 8:23:27 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: mewzilla

I believe the nation’s blood supply is completely contaminated.

All part of their evil plan.

Just try asking any major hospital system if you can give/store blood, in advance, for a loved one who may require during their stay.

Not happening.


15 posted on 08/09/2025 8:24:46 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Jane Long

At lea$t we don’t have to li$ten to lecture$ from ga$_dr any more...


16 posted on 08/09/2025 8:40:28 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: FreeReign

Big Pharma and their pocket politicians want a series of ‘pandemic du jour’ giving them cover to flood the world with experimental drugs, at great cost to the public and at great danger to the public.
“Follow the money”


17 posted on 08/09/2025 8:50:40 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: Jacquerie

Every day that goes by, the list of people with reason (they think) to assassinate President Trump grows longer.

We can add Secretary Kennedy...


18 posted on 08/09/2025 9:00:38 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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