HHS dumps successful vaccine developer. Do you remember Operation Warp Speed? During the first Trump administration that program led to the unbelievably fast development of Covid-19 vaccines by Moderna and Pfizer. Those companies used newly-developed mRNA techniques to produce their vaccines in record time. According to Dr. Ashish Jha, who coordinated the Covid-19 response in the Biden administration, “Those vaccines were administered nearly 2 billion times to hundreds of millions people around the world, making them one of the most widely studied vaccines in human history. They are safe and work well.”
Tell that to the Department of Health and Human Services! A couple of days ago, HHS cancelled its contracts with Moderna (worth about $700 million; see details here) Why the cancellation? According to HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon, “After a rigorous review, we concluded that continued investment in Moderna’s H5N1 mRNA vaccine was not scientifically or ethically justifiable. This is not simply about efficacy—it’s about safety, integrity, and trust. The reality is that mRNA technology remains under-tested, and we are not going to spend taxpayer dollars repeating the mistakes of the last administration, which concealed legitimate safety concerns from the public.”
Think of that! About 2 billion shots were given to hundreds of millions of people, and they’re under-tested? And they’re not scientifically or ethically justifiable? Please explain your thinking, Mr. Nixon. And answer these three questions. Has your boss, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., received any of those two billion shots? If not, would he be willing to be vaccinated against Covid-19? If he did well, would you change your mind?
In my previous post (see that here), I mentioned a few of the remarkable benefits of vaccines, their success in ending smallpox, polio, and measles (until a fraudulent researcher and hysterical press stories instilled a fear of these protective mechanisms). The results of that deception? A growing number of individuals began avoiding the MMR vaccine for their children. And now over 1,000 cases of measles have been reported in the U.S. in 2025. At least three children have died.
The federal contract with Moderna was for work on strains of avian flu. At the moment that virus has attacked mainly wild birds, poultry, and dairy cows. According to reports I’ve read, over the last three months of 2024 some 20 million egg laying chickens had died of the virus or as the result of culling to prevent further spread of the disease. Have you noticed any change in the price of eggs?
To come back to Moderna. The company has been testing a vaccine against four different types of avian flu. To date they have given the vaccine against a specific virus sub-type to some 300 healthy adults. Two injections of the trial vaccine have produced an increase in levels of antibodies needed for protection in 98% of the participants. Is such a vaccine needed now? Not really. A study of individuals who contracted the current strain of avian virus A(H5N1) from March through October 2024 was reported in the December 31 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. See results below.
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