RFK Jr has been sworn in as HHS Secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sworn in as Secretary Time for the Department of Health and Human Services after being confirmed by the Senate in a near-party vote.
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“The department is important [of] Health and Human Services (HHS) is helping you prepare for the pandemic. For four years of Biden administration surveillance, we had to consider vaccine production agreements, including Vaxart,,” Kennedy said in a comment provided to Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
“We look forward to working with Vaxart and medical professionals to ensure that this work produces safe, effective, and financially oriented vaccine technology.”
Kennedy issued a 90-day stop order on Friday in connection with an HHS agreement with American biotechnology company Vaxart Inc. The suspension order comes as 10,000 people are expected to start clinical trials on Monday.
The trial has been suspended and not ended, and Kennedy and other health officials will look at the initial findings of the study over the next 90 days before deciding on the next step.
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has issued a 90-day stop order related to the HHS agreement with British biotechnology company Vaxart Inc. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
The creation of a new Covid-19 vaccine was part of the Biden administration's $4.7 billion project Nextgen initiative, which began in 2023 and is working to streamline the development of new vaccines. The Vaxart vaccine was specially funded through an agreement with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA), the department of the Management Agency for Strategic Preparation and Response under the HHS umbrella.
Barda has mandated about $460 million to develop a new Vaxart vaccine, with a total of $240 million already being allowed in a preliminary investigation, Fox Digital has learned.
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With a recent change in the contract, Vaxart allowed Vaxart to charge Barda for the remaining approximately $230 million for clinical trials, but with a stopwork order, Biotech Company has been informed until further notice. Prevents billing for Barda. However, Vaxart can still claim HHS related to medical surveillance for individuals who took part in the first exam, Fox Digital learned.
The announcement comes about two weeks after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed and sworn as HHS' 26th Chief. (Getty Images)
The announcement comes just two weeks before Kennedy was confirmed and sworn as HHS' 26th Chief. On the same day he was sworn in, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a Make America Healthy Commission led by Kennedy to investigate and address the “root causes of the escalation of the American health crisis.” did.
The Covid-19 vaccine was mandated federally under the Biden administration. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
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The committee will initially focus its investigation into chronic pediatric diseases such as autism.
Kennedy, who ultimately dropped out and ran for president in the 2024 cycle before supporting Trump, was from critics over allegations of anti-vaccine stance he repeatedly denied, including a recent Senate confirmation hearing. I fired.
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order withholding federal funds from schools and universities that will mandate Covid-19 vaccines in his oval office on February 14, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“I have worked for many years to raise awareness about mercury and toxic chemicals in fish,” Kennedy said of his vaccine stance at a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee in January. “And everyone called me anti-fish. And I… believe that the vaccine plays an important role in health care. All my kids are vaccinated. I'm a vaccine. I read many books about my first book in 2014, and the first line of it “I'm not an anti-vaccine” [the] The last line is, “I'm not an anti-vaccine.” I am not the enemy of food producers either. American farms are the foundation of our culture, politics and national security. ”
The Covid-19 vaccine was mandated federally under the Biden administration, but many private sector businesses also required employees to get the vaccine.
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Trump has signed several executive orders related to the mandate of the previous administration when he returned to his oval office in January. This includes a revival of military personnel fired for refusing a vaccine, and another order banning federal funds for vaccine mandate at schools.
