Doctors decry RFK Jr’s decision to slash vaccine grants

Doctors are sounding the alarm about potentially deadly consequences of the Donald Trump administration's decision to slash $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine development, saying the “deeply troubling” move could leave Americans defenceless in the face of a biological attack, or another pandemic.

- Julia Musto, The Independent

Leading physicians and vaccine specialists were among the medical and scientific experts who told The Independent that years of progress had been lost, including the lessons learned during Covid.

“This is a deeply troubling development that will in the short term, leave the US poorly prepared for a pandemic or biological attack, and, in the long term, stifle medical innovation upon which so many Americans depend for life saving cures,” Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health, said in an email.