CDC cancels $500 million in vaccine development projects

[Pakuni]

The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/rfk-jr-pulls-funding-for-vaccines-being-developed-to-fight-respiratory-viruses

[Uncle Rico]

The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/rfk-jr-pulls-funding-for-vaccines-being-developed-to-fight-respiratory-viruses

About time.  I saw on a Joe Rogan podcast that if you eat tree bark you can't get sick

[MU82]

Don't need vaccines. Pandemics are hoaxes.

[Uncle Rico]

Don't need vaccines. Pandemics are hoaxes.

Couple that with America's embrace of ignorance, what a toxic stew

[Shaka Shart]

Finally the citizens are fighting back!

About time.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/active-shooter-emory-university

[tower912]

mRNA vaccines to treat and prevent cancers about to enter trials.

[Skatastrophy]

mRNA vaccines to treat and prevent cancers about to enter trials.

Man that was the dream when the covid vaccine passed testing and was so safe. We should be able to cure cancer in our lifetime.

[tower912]

That is the kind of research I heartily endorse.

[jesmu84]

Tangentially related:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUEw_vZkRXU/?igsh=b2F5cWwwa2ltZ3Q=

[Uncle Rico]

Tough day for morons:

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004924

[MU82]

Tough day for morons:

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004924

Morons don't care. They'll just keep lying about it, starting with Secretary Brain Worm.

[Uncle Rico]

Whistling past the graveyard

https://bsky.app/profile/firedbutfighting.bsky.social/post/3mhvgbjs7l62n

[Uncle Rico]

Your own government is trying to kill you

https://bsky.app/profile/by-cjewett.bsky.social/post/3ml4twk2r2c2k

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Your own government is trying to kill you

https://bsky.app/profile/by-cjewett.bsky.social/post/3ml4twk2r2c2k

Where is the facepalm buttom?

[MU82]

Yeah, but at least vaping is good for us now.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-pressures-fda-commissioner-to-approve-flavored-vapes-9dad81ee?

WASHINGTON—A frustrated President Trump over the weekend upbraided Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary for not moving quickly enough to approve flavored vapes and nicotine products, according to people familiar with the discussions.

In a series of weekend calls while in Florida and conversations at the White House on Monday, Trump sought advice from his advisers about Makary and the importance of flavored vaping to young MAGA voters, the people said.

[tower912]

Bizarro world.

[Uncle Rico]

Tough break for idiots

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/06/16/covid-vaccine-linked-broad-protections-against-heart-conditions-study-finds/

[MU82]

Upon reading that, Brain Worm choked on the raccoon schlong he was eating for breakfast.

[forgetful]

In sad vaccine related news. Kegstand made the flu vaccine optional for military. Only 40% opted in. Now at an Air Force base in Texas, there is a flu outbreak that has 160 soldiers out with 1 dying.

Owning ourselves.

[Skatastrophy]

In sad vaccine related news. Kegstand made the flu vaccine optional for military. Only 40% opted in. Now at an Air Force base in Texas, there is a flu outbreak that has 160 soldiers out with 1 dying.

Owning ourselves.

Military readiness is at an all-time low during an active war in Iran. Buncha fools

[Uncle Rico]

Military readiness is at an all-time low during an active war in Iran. Buncha fools

Vaccines kill.  The flu has never killed anyone.

[MU82]

Breakthroughs in medical research can sometimes take years, but the White House occupant is dismantling the system that funds it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/opinion/glp1-research-science-funding.html?

Idiocracy.