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Public health experts dismayed by RFK Jr.'s defunding of mRNA vaccine research

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A researcher works at the Moderna headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In May, the Trump administration pulled over $700 million committed to Moderna for developing future flu vaccines, and this week it canceled another $500 million in grants to various institutions researching mRNA vaccines. (Getty Images)
A researcher works at the Moderna headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In May, the Trump administration pulled over $700 million committed to Moderna for developing future flu vaccines, and this week it canceled another $500 million in grants to various institutions researching mRNA vaccines. (Getty Images)

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