The Trump administration is reportedly reconsidering the $590 million contract the Biden administration awarded to drug giant Moderna for an mRNA bird flu shot.
An initial report of the news at Bloomberg was critical of the move and referred to Moderna as being “known for its highly successful Covid-19 shot.”
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now President Donald Trump’s top health official, has been a vaccine skeptic and openly criticized Covid-19 shots,” the Bloomberg report stated. “In 2021, during the height of the pandemic, Kennedy called them ‘the deadliest vaccine ever made.’ According to the US National Institutes of Health, which now answers to Kennedy, Covid vaccines saved tens of millions of lives during the pandemic.”
The Wall Street Journal reported today that, in the wake of the news of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) review of the Biden move to fund its mRNA shot, Moderna shares fell 3%. Reuters reported the pharmaceutical company’s shares “fell 5.5% in after-market trading.”
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