Trump team’s $500 million bet on old vaccine technology puzzles scientists

Photo credit: Bret Bostock via Flickr. Public Domain. Article by Arthur Allen. Salon – May 6, 2025. This article originally appeared on KFF Health News.

The Trump administration’s unprecedented $500 million grant for a broadly protective flu shot has confounded vaccine and pandemic preparedness experts, who said the project was in early stages, relied on old technology, and was just one of more than 200 such efforts. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shifted the money from a pandemic preparedness fund to a vaccine development program led by two scientists whom the administration recently named to senior positions at the National Institutes of Health. […]

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