Why it would be utter madness to stop funding mRNA vaccine technology

[ThoughtCriminal]

https://www.archivebuttons.com/articles?article=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2473180-why-it-would-be-utter-madness-to-stop-funding-mrna-vaccine-technology/

"This week, researchers in the US were told to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications to the National Institutes of Health. It is thought this move could be a precursor to a halt in US government funding of this kind of biomedical research, which could have a wider chilling effect on research into this promising area."

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"These advances will take a lot longer to arrive if the US turns its back on the field because some politicians fail to understand basic biology. And any delays mean we all lose out, because mRNA-based therapies are going to benefit just about everyone on the planet. In fact, they already have."

[Turbineguy]

1. Elect a madman.

Get an asylum.

[flamingdem]

2. They probably think the inventors are DEI

among other insane things.

[SARose]

3. MAGA believes mRNA contains itty bitty babies

Seriously, too many are now brainwashed to believe mRNA derives from aborted fetal cells. In extreme cases they believe mRNA IS an aborted fetus. 🙄

Blame it on Fox, Trump, vaccine hesitancy or whatever. In my opinion the very idea the majority of American adults lack basic knowledge of human biology boggles my mind. Worse still - the utter lack of curiosity astounds me. You don’t even need an encyclopedia- hey Siri!

[hlthe2b]

4. The Biden-approved funding for stage 3 clinical trials for Moderna's mRNA H5N1 Avian flu vax have been halted.

$590 million for the ONLY vaccine that will be able to scale up IN TIME if H5N1 mutates to allow person-person and thus pandemic spread potential. While there are three companies with a small amount of avian flu vaccine made using standard egg inoculation techniques, those will go on day 1 and there is no way to rapidly scale up--not to mention all the people with egg allergies who cannot receive vaccine produced using this method.

I was indirectly involved in advising/overseeing one of the many US clinical trial enrollment centers and we have only been told to halt enrollment for now.

There hasn't been any media update since the announcement that TSF is "reviewing," but it doesn't look good. Along with many vaccines for infectious diseases, this will decimate the emerging world of cancer vaccines that can be tailored to an individual's tumor using mRNA techniques. Everyone here should be desperately worried.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-weighs-pulling-funding-moderna-bird-flu-vaccine-bloomberg-2025-02-27/

[Irish_Dem]

5. 100% certain politicians understand what they are doing.

They simply do not way to pay for healthcare, medical research, diagnosis and treatment of sick people.

The old, infirm, sick, injured are useless eaters.

Billionaires are refusing to pay for these groups.

All the money belongs to the rich.

[applegrove]

6. Don't you get that on the right they don't want the average

person to live long into social security and Medicare? mRNA vaccines could cure Aids, cancer, malaria and other illnesses. None of these things the MAGA/Republicans want to cure.