The Trump administration pronounced its last blow to vaccines, canceling a contract of nearly $ 600 million to the modern drugs which was intended to develop a shot for humans against the bird flu.
The decision has also lost the right of the US government to buy doses before a pandemic and canceled an agreement put in place by the Biden administration in January to prepare the nation for a potential bird flu pandemic. The Moderna contract relied on a previous government investment of $ 175 million last year.
This decision was not entirely unexpected. The Ministry of Health and Social Services said earlier this year that it was examining the contract. And the Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has repeatedly presented the security of mRNA technology, which is used in the Conspecting Vaccine of Moderna.
Used first for co -vored vaccines made by Pfizer-Biontech and Moderna, the mRNA shots ask the body to produce a fragment of the virus, which then triggers the body’s immune response.
Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for health and social services, said: “After a rigorous examination, we concluded that continuous investment in the Moderna H5N1 mRNA vaccine was not scientifically or ethically justifiable.”
Moderna said He would explore alternatives To develop the vaccines covered by the contract, which were to be designed for several types of influenza viruses which have the potential to cause a pandemic.
