Fox News reported: "President Trump's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is terminating awards totaling more than $750 million dollars that were provided to pharmaceutical manufacturer Moderna to help facilitate its production of mRNA-based bird flu vaccines.
During President Biden's final week in office, his administration awarded $590 million to Moderna to help speed up its production of mRNA-based vaccines. The $590 million award followed a separate $176 million award Biden gave to Moderna earlier last year for mRNA vaccine technology.
Messenger RNA vaccines are a newer type of vaccine technology, which was utilized by companies like Moderna and Pfizer to develop their COVID-19 vaccines. The vaccine technology was at the center of a lot of criticism amid the coronavirus pandemic for potentially being associated with adverse side effects in some people who took them, such as myocarditis.
Trump administration officials previously hinted at the potential that this funding could be terminated, citing a lack of oversight during the Biden administration pertaining to vaccine production.
"After a rigorous review, we concluded that continued investment in Moderna’s H5N1 mRNA vaccine was not scientifically or ethically justifiable," HHS Communications Director Andrew Nixon said. "This is not simply about efficacy — it’s about safety, integrity, and trust. The reality is that mRNA technology remains under-tested, and we are not going to spend taxpayer dollars repeating the mistakes of the last administration, which concealed legitimate safety concerns from the public."
The announcement reflects a larger shift in federal vaccine priorities, after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced earlier this week that COVID-19 vaccines would be removed from the federal government's list of recommended vaccines for children and pregnant women.
Meanwhile, a report from Senate Republicans released earlier this month suggested the Biden administration withheld critical safety data and downplayed known risks tied to the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. In particular, the Senate report focuses on HHS’ awareness of, and response to, cases of myocarditis — a type of heart inflammation — following COVID-19 vaccination."
This report comes right after popular podcaster Joe Rogan had an episode on his show, The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring footballer Aaron Rodgers, wherein Rogan detailed the high number of purported deaths from the Pfizer mRNA vaccine.
Rogan described the fatality rate as being "higher than the deaths in all world wars combined."
Toria Brooke detailed this in Patriot Uncensored's: REPORT: COVID-19 mRNA vaccines killed more than world war fatalities combined.
Toria wrote, "During his podcast with Aaron Rodgers, Joe Rogan talked about a new study estimating that Pfizer's COVID-19 mRNA vaccines resulted in the deaths of between 470,000 to 600,000 Americans.
Rogan compares the vaccine-related fatalities to the combined American deaths from World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War, suggesting that the vaccines have caused more deaths.
The figures Rogan refers to are derived from data adjustments in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and studies from MIT and the Florida Department of Health.
Rogan suggests a significant discrepancy in mortality rates among recipients of different vaccine brands, stating a 36% increase in all-cause mortality among recipients of Pfizer’s vaccine compared to those who received Moderna’s.
In a tongue-and-cheek way, Aaron Rodgers interjects to juxtapose the alleged enormous death toll with the argument often made in favor of vaccines: "That they have saved millions of lives."
Joe Rogan’s comments on the study amplify the contentious debate about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines."
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06.27.2025