{"id":5996,"date":"2025-08-11T23:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/mrna-vaccines-bhattacharya-bannon\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T23:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:02:25","slug":"mrna-vaccines-bhattacharya-bannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/mrna-vaccines-bhattacharya-bannon\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH director: mRNA vaccine contracts were canceled because public lacks trust in technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

NIH director: mRNA vaccine contracts were canceled because public lacks trust in technology
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The head of the National Institutes of Health has offered a new explanation for why the federal government canceled $500 million in contracts to help develop messenger RNA vaccines<\/a>, saying the platform is not viable because the public doesn\u2019t trust it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The agency\u2019s director, Jay Bhattacharya, made the statement during an appearance on right-wing provocateur Steve Bannon\u2019s podcast, \u201cWar Room,\u201d that aired on Saturday<\/a>. His rationale for the cancellation of the contracts does not align with the explanation offered last week by his boss, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who said vaccines made using this platform were not effective and were unsafe<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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NIH director: mRNA vaccine contracts were canceled because public lacks trust in technology The head of the National Institutes of Health has offered a new explanation for why the federal government canceled $500 million in contracts to help develop messenger RNA vaccines, saying the platform is not viable because the public doesn\u2019t trust it.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2267,1428,2179,2148,2144,2180,2149,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-health","category-infectious-disease","category-nih","category-politics","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}