YThey should be subjected to severe pressure to find many public health experts who have positive things that can be said about Donald Trump’s dealings with Covid-19 in the United States. Along with his failure in the many politics, one Cornell University study It was found that it was the largest source of misleading Covid-19. But if there is a single recovery feature for Trump’s epidemic record, his leadership should be in the speed of the warp-a huge initiative funded by the government that played a pivotal role in the fast Covid-19 vaccines.
“The process of warp is one of the most prominent scientific and human achievements in the half century,” Former American surgeon Jerome Adams He said. The billions of dollars have been directed to develop vaccines and their manufacture, especially on the platform of Marna, which has become the backbone of Moderna and Pfizer/Biontech vaccines.
Vaccines work by preparing the body’s immune system to determine and attack foreign agents who enter the body successfully. Traditional vaccines use weak or disabled viruses to provide a child’s copy for the body to fight and learn from it. These vaccines are often produced by planting the virus in chicken eggs, which means that production and can take months to expand its scope. On the contrary, a mirror platform like the Video Games Control Unit works components and playing: You can only “connect” the genetic code to a specific virus or pathogens. the vaccine Provides instructions To our bodies to make parts of the virus in our cells, calling for an immune response.
The process of creating and manufacturing these vaccines is faster and much more flexible than their traditional counterparts. This is especially important for a disease like bird flu, which reaches 100 % death rate in chicken. But despite the speed they meet, there are still large time lines before the start of the comprehensive start to allow clinical trials to ensure human safety, test side effects and know optimum doses. During the Covid Epidem, Moderna and Pfizer vaccines were created within weeks of search teams that receive the SARS-COV-2 genetic sequence from China in January 2020. What took every year is testing and organizational approval to ensure confidence in its safety.
Given Trump’s success with the Warp Speed operation, it is strange that Robert F Kennedy Junior, Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, has announced $ 500 million discounts in a flexible vaccine investment portfolio. This includes the cancellation of funding to develop Moderna in the H5N1 bird flu vaccine in the late stage. Professor Rebecca Katz, a global health security expert and former US State Department advisor, asked her for damage. She described it: “The wound that has been infected with a vital organ.”
On its own, the RFK JR decision is not surprising, given the long anti -fax call and follow -up. He built a complete identity on the anti -science discourse and is especially explicit about the supposed risks of a flexible technology. But being an anti -fax is also a difficult way to move: RFK JR disturbed his base When, under great political pressure, MMR vaccines finally approved the outbreak of measles in Texas.
But setting one person aside, what does these cuts mean for the health of people who live in the United States and the wider world? It is bad news. Take an example of H5N1 bird flu. This virus has shown in relation to the dangerous, including becoming a settler in wild birds, affecting a number of poultry farms, and now it has sufficient mutations to enable the transmission of cows to mammals in mammals) in the United States between dairy cattle. With its circulation in certain herds of dairy cattle, it rose in human infections (cow to human). The virus is now One mutation away From the easiest transition between humans. This is the nightmare scenario: influenza, and perhaps more deadly than Covid-19.
If the H5N1 breed appears from human to human being, the current MRNA infrastructure can be used to develop a targeted vaccine quickly. Many countries, including the United Kingdom, have been storing vaccine ingredients or intensifying monitoring. Under the Biden Administration, the United States was among the leaders in this effort. Through investment shelves and stopping more development, the United States is mainly gambling that we will not need quick counter measures. It is a dangerous bet. When the next epidemic occurs, the cost in human life may be much higher than we saw in 2020.
Can other countries capture the recession simply with the production of the Merseuled Rana? Not easily. After Covid’s pandemic led to great variation, as places in the world were able to reach vaccine supplies, many countries began planning their vaccine axes. They did not want to rely on the United States or the United Kingdom to donate doses: they wanted to respond independently. On a National Academies Project I was a deputy head of the global coordination of vaccine for friendly influenza, we looked closely at regional production, including in Africa. What I learned from experts around the world is that VaccineEspecially the free -based vaccines require a high degree of technical expertise, quality control and very specialized supply chains. This will happen elsewhere, but not quickly enough to bear the impact of the American decision.
Unlike external aid discounts, where the impact is immediately affected by the closure of healthy food programs or clinics, the discounts in financing research have a slower and deeper effect, especially with regard to experience and generation of knowledge. Research programs that were working to prepare for the epidemic closed. After the doctorate, researchers do not find jobs, without the soft funds needed to support them. PhD programs are frozen or canceled. Universities, which rely heavily on government financing, depend on the decline in their research activities in the field of health, especially in the areas where money is cut. Perhaps the most destructive at all: smart and aspiring young scientists have less opportunities to develop jobs in public health and vaccine development. They will search elsewhere – artificial intelligence, technology, financing. Where will the experience come from the next 15 to 20 years if the job pipeline is closed?
RFK JR may put itself as making America healthy again, but in reality, its policies make the entire world more at risk. In fact, it may be the most dangerous person in the Trump administration – not because he is loud or irregular, but because he steals steadily for public health research and infrastructure. This is not just a bad policy. It is a setback between generations. In this light, RFK JR not only stands as a controversial figure but as a serious danger to national and global health security.