LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Canceling federal mRNA vaccine projects threatens much more than pandemic response, an expert at Michigan State University warned.

Last week, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he would terminate 22 federally-backed mRNA vaccine studies worth about $500 million. He said whole-virus platforms are “safer” and less likely to fail when a pathogen mutates.

Experts say it’s dangerous to stop research on mRNA vaccines because they can be made quickly.

“The beauty of mRNA vaccines is that they can be produced very fast,” said MSU Precision Health Program Director Anna Moore, who received her doctorate in bioorganic chemistry from the Institute of Biochemistry at the Russian Academy of Sciences. “It doesn’t cost much now that we’ve deve

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