{"id":78277,"date":"2025-08-06T15:23:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78277"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:23:46","slug":"rfk-jr-cancels-500m-in-funding-for-mrna-vaccines-for-diseases-like-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/06\/rfk-jr-cancels-500m-in-funding-for-mrna-vaccines-for-diseases-like-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr cancels $500m in funding for mRNA vaccines for diseases like Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/5b01\/live\/44904840-724d-11f0-bd13-059d7146df87.jpg\" alt=\"Robert F Kennedy Jr speaks\" width=\"628\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to cancel $500m (\u00a3376m) in funding for mRNA vaccines being developed to counter viruses that cause diseases such as the flu and Covid-19.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c74dzdddvmjo?at_ptr_name=twitter&amp;at_bbc_team=editorial&amp;at_link_type=web_link&amp;at_campaign_type=owned&amp;at_link_origin=BBCWorld&amp;at_format=link&amp;at_link_id=5DD1B65E-725C-11F0-B2EF-EB250B7E8BD2\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to cancel $500m (\u00a3376m) in funding for mRNA vaccines being developed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/RF-Kennedy-junior.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78278,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78277\/revisions\/78278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}