Public health experts dismayed by RFK Jr.'s defunding of mRNA vaccine research

A researcher works at the Moderna headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. In May the Trump administration pulled over $700 million committed to Moderna for developing future flu vaccines and this week it cancelled another $500 million in grants to various institutions researching mRNA vaccines.

The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.

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