Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams — who served during the first Trump administration — said Sunday that Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr's halting of around $500 million dollars for mRNA vaccine research risks stalling progress in "many of the most promising areas of modern medicine."

Kennedy announced last week that the administration was canceling 22 mRNA vaccine development projects, saying the vaccines "fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu." The projects were funded through the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA. Kennedy said the funds would be shifted toward "safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate."

Adams, who appeared Sunday on "Face

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