On September 4, 2025, The hearing before the Senate Finance CommitteeMinister of Health and Humanitarian Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior. I faced hot questions from many Senate members About the policies of its urgency, including his position Covid-19 Vaccines and vaccine technology in general.
Although Kennedy agreed to the speed of warp, the initiative to sign President Donald Trump to produce Covid-19 Vaccines Within nine months, it was a tremendous achievement, and also stressed that the Covid-19 vaccines caused widespread and serious harm, including death, especially among young people-a claim that there is no evidence.
Some indicative questions came in particular from the Republican Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, a doctor Who presented the final voting necessary to confirm Kennedy In February 2025, after Kennedy promised him that he would not change the centers of diseases control and the process of preventing vaccines. Cassidi referred to this with Restrictions and confusion because of New CDC rules on Covid-19 vaccines“I would like to say effectively that we are deprived of people’s vaccines.” He answered Kennedy, “Well, you are wrong.”
At the session, Kennedy stood up to his decision Reducing $ 500 million of HHS financing For 22 contracts in search of Flexible vaccine technology. HHS said it will pour this money instead in the search for a traditional approach to the design of the vaccines that were It was used for the first time in more than 200 years. With these vaccines, He invited full virus vaccinesThe person’s immune system Serve with the whole virusOften in a weak or disabled form. This switch Many scholars have baffled.
A few days before the session, on September 1, Trump demanded that pharmaceutical companies Proved that Covid-19 MRNA vaccines are workingHe said that the center of diseases was “rupture on this question.” This was his first public recognition of the chaos roaming at the Center for Disease Control Amid the launch of its director, Suzan MonaresThe subsequent resignation of four high -ranking agency officials.
During, Public health experts and HHS employees Kennedy calls for his expulsion, and many Senate members chanted in the hearing that invitation.
As a vaccine specialist Who has The vaccines that you studied and developed For more than 35 years, I see that science behind a flexible vaccine technology has been widely erred. This incorrect information constitutes a long-term health policy in the United States-which makes it necessary to correct the record.
Are flexible vaccines less safe than whole virus vaccines?
HHS defended the abolition of the list of the existing elastic vaccine, partly, on a group that is not reviewed by the chosen publications called Covid-19 Merna “vaccine”, research collection, harm. This document recounts about 750 articles claiming to describe the damage caused by the Rena-sent vaccines against Covid-19. However, the vast majority of these articles do not revolve around vaccines but about the damage to SARS-COV-2, which is the virus that causes Covid-19. Especially absent from this is the huge body of data Show flexible vaccines that already prevent these damages.
For example, the document used to justify the allegations of RFK JR. About Marna vaccines 375 studies informed that the virus height protein alone, which is produced when the virus is repeated, It can cause excessive inflammation and tissue damage. This is correct. But the document thwarts this guide to support the claim that flexible vaccines, which are designed to produce spike proteins, cause the same damage – which is inaccurate.
While viral symmetry copies result in non -controlled production of large quantities of protein, the method produced by a flexible vaccine is completely different. The vaccine is produced A small amount governed by the height protein inside a few cells – It is only enough to urge an immune response without causing damage. By preventing the repetition of the virus, it reduces the amount of protein in circulation, in fact the opposite effect.
What about side effects such as myocarditis?
Early reports reported a kind of Heart swelling is called myocarditis As a rare side effect, a flexible vaccine, especially for young people between the ages of 18 and 25 years after a reinforced dose. A review of 2024 has been determined About 20 cases out of one million people Those who received the vaccine. However, this same study found that unattended people suffer from a risk higher than eleven times of heart muscle inflammation after Covid-19 infected people who were vaccinated.
What’s more, another study showed in 2024 that the people who Advanced myocarditis after vaccination was less complications Among those who developed the condition after Covid-19.
Do you make the SARS-COV-2 resistant virus?
Another claim from Assembly of the supposed bitter vaccine damage It was cited as a reason to reduce the financing of the Mercy Rana technology is that the vaccines are flexible Causing mutations in the SARS-COV-2 virus Which makes them resistance or less vulnerable to vaccine.
When the virus is repeated in its host, it produces millions of copies of its genetic articles. Mutations Copy errors that make naturally During the symmetrical transcription process. These acquired mutations produce new variables, which is why Covid-19 MRNA updates influenza vaccines in viruses entirely annually-to keep pace with natural changes in the virus.
It reduces viral symmetrical copies of the rate The virus can get new mutations. Since both flexible vaccines and a full virus Stop or slow down the virus from repetitionBoth types of vaccines help reduce the appearance of resistance viruses.
Viruses can turn to escape from antibodies, but flexible vaccines do not cause The appearance of more fierce breedsIt is more likely for at least two reasons. First, the flexible vaccines stimulate the immune responses that can attack the virus in multiple spots, so you should reach many mutations simultaneously to escape the vaccine defenses. Second, even if the virus can get all these mutations, They can weaken himWhich makes it unable to cause the disease or even transmit the disease.
Frank vaccines for new variables SARS-COV-2
Kennedy, in Announcing discounts for flexible vaccine research On August 5, 2025, he claimed that flexible vaccines do not work against respiratory viruses and that HHS was moving towards “safer and broader vaccine platforms It remains effective even with the transformation of viruses“
Both full virus vaccines and flexible vaccines are protected against Covid-19 and I prevented the hospital and death Millions of people around the world between 2020 and 2024, but there is clear evidence that Vaccines based on us available Significant protection From the entire virus vaccines. Covid-19, flexible vaccines More effective against new variablesWhich appear as viruses turn from the entire virus vaccines.
Covid-19 MRNA vaccines It started with exceptionally highly effectiveExceeding 94 %. when Delta and omicron SARS-COV-2 In Spring and Fall in 2021, flexible vaccines It has become less effective in preventing infections. However, they remained Very effective in preventing severe diseaseWhile in non -fortified people, severe disease rates and hospitalization remained high.
This is because flexible vaccines stimulate the immune system Both antibodies and Specialized immune cells are called T -cells. These elements can identify multiple parts of the virus, including those that are not changing, allowing great protection against new variables.
Moreover, flexible vaccines have a great power that cannot match any other type of vaccine now: it can be Update and manufacture quickly Within two months to three months. To develop a full virus vaccine, researchers must first Spend months in the isolation and spread of the virus. On the contrary, making a flexible vaccine It requires just the sequence of the genetic code of the virus – A process that takes only hours.
If a new pandemic starts today, flexible vaccines are currently the only type of vaccine that can be developed quickly enough to disrupt their spread.
The future of flexible vaccine techniques
Thirty years ago, when scientists It started for the first time in developing a flexible vaccine technologyThey realized their ability to overcome it The main restrictions of the entire virus vaccines Any time slow production and limited ability to protect against new viral variables. Today, flexible vaccines are also developed to prevent or treat diseases, including HIV and cancer virus, as well as immune and genetic diseases.
naturally, This technology can be improved. The new Marna vaccine techniques, among other things, aims to facilitate the storage of Marna vaccines to allow the fastest distribution and reduce their short -term side effects, Eliminate the rare risk of myocarditis and Foreign out of the respiratory infection.
National Institutes of Health remove funds from the new RNA technologies towards one project Developing global vaccines Based on traditional virus vaccine technology. There is an urgent need for global vaccines To provide wider protection against constantly changing respiratory viruses, such as influenza, which constitute the main friendly threats.
Study 2022 in mice and mice He showed that NIH plans are a global influenza vaccine to support him. However, multiple studies of capabilities Comprehensive influenza vaccines based on flexible technology Display The most capable. Such vaccines can stimulate wider immunity than the entire virus vaccines by devising the responses of antibodies and T -cells that It targeted a wide range of influenza viruses.
It is difficult to direct these benefits with the fact that HHS and NIH have been launched on a new global vaccine platform.Standard gold generation“Insist that it represents a new standard in science and transparency. It seems that the voltage is closer to getting rid of all electronic bicycle technologies and telling everyone who seeks to get one brand of one of 10 speeds: access to the intended destination may still be possible, but it will be slower and harder.
In the event that a flexible vaccine research is abandoned, this may lead to a loss of life, whether due to the potential, non -exploited medications or to the epidemic.
This article was updated to include details from Kennedy on September 4, 2025, the hearing.
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