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ANTI-VAX TO THE MAX
Is Bird Flu Our Next Pandemic?
Hasn’t COVID done enough damage?
Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) canceled a contract with Moderna to develop pandemic vaccines, including a vaccine for bird flu.
Apparently, 1,1 million deaths in the U.S. from COVID — 18.2 million deaths worldwide — is not enough dying for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
For RFK Jr., another pandemic is not a bad thing. So it would seem.
The $590 million contract with Moderna to develop a vaccine against bird flu was signed in the last days of the Biden administration. When HHS cancelled it, the development stage of the vaccine was complete, and a preliminary trial on a group of 300 volunteers had been conducted. Additional trials on successively larger groups of people were being set up.
The results of the preliminary trial were positive: a 44.5-fold increase in antibody levels against the virus and every indication that the vaccine is safe.
Why was the contract to develop a bird flu vaccine cancelled?
RFK Jr. said the contract was cancelled because there had not been enough testing of the method used to develop vaccines against…
