(The Hill) - Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision this week to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in mRNA vaccine funding will leave the United States unprepared for the next pandemic and other public health emergencies, public health experts warned.

“I’ve tried to be objective & non-alarmist in response to current HHS actions—but quite frankly this move is going to cost lives,” President Trump’s former surgeon general Jerome Adams said in a post to X.

“mRNA technology has uses that go far beyond vaccines... and the vaccine they helped develop in record time is credited with saving millions.”

The first COVID-19 mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna hit the market in 2021, just a year after the virus first appeared. Vaccines typically take years to develop, but the mRNA

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