{"id":6059,"date":"2025-08-13T23:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/rfk-jr-mrna-vaccine-contracts-explanation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T23:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:02:22","slug":"rfk-jr-mrna-vaccine-contracts-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/rfk-jr-mrna-vaccine-contracts-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing RFK Jr.\u2019s explanation for the cancellation of mRNA vaccine contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Deconstructing RFK Jr.\u2019s explanation for the cancellation of mRNA vaccine contracts<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Last week, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/05\/mrna-vaccine-development-canceled-by-kennedy-hhs\/\">cancellation<\/a> of $500 million in contracts to help develop RNA vaccines. Kennedy explained his reasoning for the cuts in a video posted to X.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecKennedy\/status\/1952851097019633766\">video<\/a> is only 2\u00bd minutes long, but in that time the health secretary made a number of claims that have been disputed by vaccinologists and other medical experts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/13\/rfk-jr-mrna-vaccine-contracts-explanation\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Alex Hogan and Anil Oza<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/13\/rfk-jr-mrna-vaccine-contracts-explanation\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deconstructing RFK Jr.\u2019s explanation for the cancellation of mRNA vaccine contracts Last week, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the cancellation of $500 million in contracts to help develop RNA vaccines. Kennedy explained his reasoning for the cuts in a video posted to X. The video is only 2\u00bd minutes long, but in that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2144,2180,858,2149,3507,2195,3508],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-public-health","category-research","category-rfk-jr","category-status-report","category-vaccines","category-video","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059"}],"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=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}