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Efforts Grow to Thwart mRNA Therapies as RFK Jr. Pushes Vaccine Wariness

Efforts Grow to Thwart mRNA Therapies as RFK Jr. Pushes Vaccine Wariness

Utah and Tennessee passed laws requiring foods containing vaccines to be classified as drugs, even though no such foods are on the market. Legislators pointed to a University of California study that is investigating whether it is possible to put vaccines in lettuce. “You eat a bunch of this lettuce, take a bunch of these mRNA vaccines, and you go …

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What to Know About mRNA Vaccines

What to Know About mRNA Vaccines

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19. Scientists with funding from the National Institutes of Health were advised to scrub their grants of any reference to mRNA. Around the country, state legislatures are considering bills to ban or limit such vaccines, with one describing them as weapons of mass destruction. While …

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Kennedy Issues Demands for Vaccine Approvals That Could Affect Fall Covid Boosters

Kennedy Issues Demands for Vaccine Approvals That Could Affect Fall Covid Boosters

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan that would require placebo-controlled studies for all new vaccines, surprising some experts who noted that such testing already routinely took place. In a statement, Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said that “all new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials” before approval, and …

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