RFK Jr Pauses Multi-Million Dollar Contract To Develop New COVID-19 Vaccine

Authored by Jeff Louderbeck via The Epoch Times,

Clinical trials for a new COVID-19 vaccine were halted after a multi-million contract authorized by the Biden administration to develop the inoculation was paused by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy implemented a 90-day stop-work order on Feb. 21 regarding the HHS contract with Vaxart Inc., according to the announcement, which was first reported by Fox News Digital on Feb. 25.

Vaxart, an American biotech company, is creating a new COVID-19 inoculation for oral use.

Before the stop-work order, 10,000 individuals were scheduled to start clinical trials on Feb. 24, an HHS spokesperson confirmed with The Epoch Times.

Kennedy noted in comments to Fox News Digital that “it is crucial” that the HHS support pandemic preparedness, “four years of the Biden administration’s failed oversight have made it necessary to review agreements for vaccine production, including Vaxart’s.”

The trial is not terminated, according to the HHS.

Kennedy and other health officials will determine the next steps after reviewing their findings over the next 90 days.

As part of the Biden administration’s $4.7 billion Project NextGen program launched in 2023, the Vaxart vaccine was funded through an agreement with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

That panel is part of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, which is managed by HHS.

BARDA allocated around $460 million for Vaxart to develop the new vaccine, including $240 million that has already been approved.

The announcement to pause Vaxart’s contract was followed by a report that an Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine advisory committee meeting slated for March has been canceled, according to committee member Dr. Paul Offit, who is the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a vocal critic of Kennedy.

Offit told multiple media outlets on Feb. 26 that members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee received an email from the FDA letting them know the meeting would not take place. The meeting had been set to choose the strains for next season’s flu shot.

The FDA is one of 13 agencies under the HHS umbrella.

On Feb. 28, a World Health Organization (WHO) advisory committee is scheduled to gather and discuss which strains should be included in the next flu vaccines across the Northern Hemisphere. The FDA often adheres that that committee’s recommendations.

Trump issued an executive order in January to start the process of withdrawing the United States from the WHO.

A pharmacist prepares a dose behind a counter lined with vials of COVID-19 vaccines in Toronto on June 18, 2021. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press

Two weeks ago, Kennedy gained Senate confirmation to become HHS secretary. He was sworn in that day, and moments later Trump signed an executive order establishing the president’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission.

Kennedy serves as chairman of the commission, which directs executive departments and federal agencies to primarily advise the president on how to “address the childhood chronic disease crisis.”

The MAHA Commission is tasked to explore possible causes of such diseases, including “the American diet, absorption of toxic material, medical treatments, lifestyle, environmental factors, government policies, food production techniques, electromagnetic radiation, and corporate influence or cronyism.”

For years, critics have called Kennedy an “anti-vaxxer,” a claim he has denied.

During his presidential campaign and the Senate confirmation process, he repeatedly said he is an advocate for vaccine safety, informed consent, and “gold standard science” behind vaccine efficacy studies.

“I’ve never been anti-vaccine,” Kennedy told The Epoch Times in September 2024.

“People should have a choice, and that choice should be informed by the best information possible.

“I’m going to ensure that there are science-based safety studies available, and people can make their own assessments about whether a vaccine is good for them.”

Under the Biden administration, COVID-19 vaccines were mandated throughout the federal government.

Multiple private sector businesses, and public and private universities, also required the inoculation.

Since Trump took office last month, he has signed several executive orders related to COVID-19 mandates implemented by the Biden administration.

On Feb. 14, Trump signed an executive order barring funding to universities and schools with COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

In his first week back in office, Trump reinstated service members dismissed for refusing the COVID vaccine, giving them full back pay and benefits.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covi...new-covid-19-vaccine

Marty Makary’s Pro-COVID Vax Stance Means He’s Fundamentally Wrong for FDA Commissioner
By Benjamin Rushe

Marty Makary is the wrong choice for FDA commissioner. He’s very good at communicating at a popular level, but the fact that he kept pushing the mRNA COVID vaccine long after problems with it were obvious should be an insurmountable barrier to confirmation.

https://www.americanthinker.co...da_commissioner.html

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Nah, you know it's just conspiracy theory pushed by the far right...

Trump admin given bombshell intelligence from ally that Covid was lab-made... and proof of new China program

By ALEXA LARDIERI U.S. DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:49 EDT, 12 March 2025 | UPDATED: 16:28 EDT, 12 March 2025

New evidence supports the Covid lab-leak theory with '80 to 95 percent certainty,' intelligence out of Germany claims.

The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) carried out a secret investigation into the origins of Covid nicknamed Project Saaremaa during the pandemic, the findings of which were only shared with the US in December 2024.

German agents targeted Chinese government agencies and scientific institutions across the country, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology - the lab at the center of the lab-leak theory.

In Wuhan, the BND agents 'struck gold,' coming 'as close to the origins of the pandemic... as possible in China,' German media Die Zeit reported.

They found unpublished dissertations from 2019 and 2020 that allegedly discussed the effects of coronaviruses on the human body.

Additionally, uncovered materials revealed Chinese scientists had 'an unusually large amount of knowledge about the supposedly novel virus available at an unusually early stage.'

Based on the materials BND agents found and analyzed, they used a 'Probability Index' to measure the reliability of information, which determined the lab-leak theory was 'probable' with an '80 to 95 percent' certainty.

Perhaps more alarming, the agents also found Chinese scientists are still carrying out dangerous manipulation experiments with the deadly coronavirus MERS.

Findings from Project Saaremaa were revealed by German media outlet Die Zeit, which along with Süddeutsche Zeitung, conducted an 18-month investigation into the project.

Investigators also found biosecurity measures at WIV were lacking.

Virus-infected animal samples were transported between labs carelessly, raising the risk that pathogens could escape the lab.

While the investigators were almost positive Covid came from a lab, Die Zeit reported BND does not have definitive proof.

The Chinese government has always denied the lab-leak theory and maintained Covid was the product of an animal spillover.

America's US intelligence agencies, the FBI and CIA, say a lab leak is most likely.

People involved in Saaremaa told the German media outlets they took their findings to German officials in 2020, including the Federal Chancellery and the state secretary responsible for intelligence services.

A federal chancellery secretary was also briefed, the agents claimed, and then Chancellor Angela Merkel was also reportedly made aware, according to Die Zeit.

When asked to confirm if she was informed, Merkel declined to answer, Die Zeit reported.

People involved in Project Saaremaa told the media outlets the German government took no action and the World Health Organization was never informed: 'The BND was sworn to secrecy.'

Dr Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told DailyMail.com: 'The main points are clear: All informed persons - without exception - knew by early 2020 that SARS-CoV-2 likely entered humans through a research-related incident in Wuhan.

'But most chose to lie or to stay silent.

'It is now clear that this not only included the scientific establishment... but also the intelligence agencies of the US and Germany, which withheld information from the public and policy makers.'

It wasn't until December 2024, five years after the first cases appeared in China, that the BND was able to share its findings with US intelligence agencies, people involved in the project said.

German and US officials have reportedly spoken about the matter on three occasions: December 2024 and January and February 2025.

The BND also allegedly discussed its findings with the CIA in late 2024 and believe they 'will soon be known to the Trump administration as well,' Die Zeit reported.

In addition to information discovered five years ago, BND uncovered new evidence the Chinese are currently 'overstepping boundaries.'

According to the investigation, Chinese researchers are allegedly testing the transmission of MERS coronaviruses and related viruses in human cells.

MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, is a contagious respiratory illness spread from animals to humans and from human to human. It causes fever, cough, shortness of breath, diarrhea and vomiting, and can be fatal in severe cases.

A new virus closely related to MERS, which kills up to a third of people it infects, was recently discovered in China.

In scenes eerily reminiscent of the beginnings of Covid, researchers at the WIV detected the new strain, HKU5-CoV-2, living within bats.

HKU5-CoV-2 is strikingly similar to the pandemic virus, sparking fears that history could repeat itself just two years after the worst was declared over.

Preliminary tests showed HKU5-CoV-2 infiltrated human cells in the same way as SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid.

Sharing their discovery in the journal Cell, the Beijing-funded researchers admitted it posed a 'high risk of spillover to humans, either through direct transmission or facilitated by intermediate hosts.'

quote:

A new virus closely related to MERS, which kills up to a third of people it infects, was recently discovered in China.

In scenes eerily reminiscent of the beginnings of Covid, researchers at the WIV detected the new strain, HKU5-CoV-2, living within bats.

HKU5-CoV-2 is strikingly similar to the pandemic virus, sparking fears that history could repeat itself just two years after the worst was declared over.

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