The leadership of the Health Organization of USA and policymakers seem to have the intention to undermine trust in the mrnatechnology that saved millions of lives during Covid’s pandemic, leaving many promises to tackle a series of infectious diseases, even cancer.

A disturbing sign of the trend came when, according to KFF’s reports, officials of the National Institutes They told academic researchers to remove any reference to MRNA vaccine technology from grant applications. The directive is combined with weak or misleading messages by public health bodies on the value of vaccines and the proposed state legislation that would ban mRNA vaccines.

All of this leads public health in the wrong direction, either because people avoid today’s vaccine for COVID Either because they refuse to receive any mRNA vaccines have been developed to treat a future pandemic.

“What happens is literally to put party policy in front of a cancer treatment,” he says MatthewAssistant Professor of Law, Policy and Health Administration at the School of Public Health of the University of Boston. “It is really sad that this will affect people’s lives in a very tangible way, not only by removing access to access, but by depriving them of something they could have access to one day.”

MRNA technology took decades to develop. It was a painstaking job supported by the Nih and eventually recognized with the Nobel Medical 2023. The goal is no different from a conventional vaccine – to expose the immune system to essential ingredients of a bad factor, whether it is a virus or a cancer mutation, to learn how to treat it the next time it appears.

To know, a mRNA vaccine is not incorporated or interacting with the DNA We do not cause infertility, it does not contain a microchip.

And yet these claims continue – and not just by random people who promote conspiracy theories on social media.
Government officials have also promoted these false theories. An analysis of 2021 by the Center for the Fighting of Digital Hate identified the secretary of the Ministry of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior as one of the most prominent people who were misinformed about the Covid vaccine. Kennedy was pressured to withdraw the vaccine from the market in mid -2021 and later called it “the most deadly vaccine ever”.

He has not publicly repeated his wildest allegations of Covid vaccines since the president Donald Trump He appointed him in place of HHS. However, it has questioned their use in children during the Senate confirmation hearing and the services that supervise signify a distrust in MRNA. In addition to possible cuts in funding to support MRNA research, NIH finished dozens of grants related to vaccination -related grants, some of which focused on Covid vaccines. HHS, meanwhile, is thinking of withdrawing a $ 590 million contract assigned to Moderna to use its technology to develop vaccines for bird flu.

Dewarding or removing mRNA research and relative hesitation for vaccines are deeply alarming. The suppression of scientific research in a study area that has already saved millions of lives and is able to be one of our best defenses against future pandemics puts us all in danger. This means that we may not be able to switch quickly to technology that can grow rapidly in the event of an emergency. Our Covid vaccines do a great job to keep people out of the hospital and not die, but we should continue to seek vaccines that prevent infection or are stronger or can become cheaper.

Biotechnology companies such as Moderna and the Biontech They may take part of the job, but the NIH funded academic partners were critical to the fundamental science that supports the work of these companies.

The most frightening scenario is that we can find ourselves in an ever -increasing feedback loop around mRNA and vaccination, where the mistrust of health services generates laws against vaccines that enhance this mistrust.

Ever since Trump took over his duties, many states have established legislation – some losers, others pending – with the aim of MRNA vaccines. Politics in Aidaho, Iowa and Montana tried to completely ban MRNA vaccines.

All of these actions by state and federal leaders do not only create barriers, but fuel the distrust around mRNA that could affect the attitude of the safety and value of all shots, either for Covid, influenza of birds or other diseases. This leads science backwards and will eventually be harmful to the American public.