Why HHS Pivots Away from mRNA Vaccines

[Axtremus]

Op-ed by Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, on why the US Dept. of HHS under the Trump administration pivots away from mRNA vaccines:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/12/nih-mrna-vaccines-jay-bhattacharya/

TL;DR : because mRNA failed to earn public trust, and it's Biden's fault.

[jon-nyc]

I think Matt Yglesias has a better take.

[LuFins Dad]

That was one part of 2024 that I will never understand. All of that Vax skepticism along with people angry about the lockdowns, the Work from Home resolutions, and the inflation caused by massive government handouts… And they all eagerly supported the guy that did all of it.

DeSantis really should have wiped the floor with Trump, but he was too weak. That’s the alternative that would have been better, and I’ll always be pissed that he didn’t fully engage.

[Mik]

It is quite a mystery to me too. His greatest achievement of the first term.

[NobodySock]

But a base that ate up a new conspiracy theory like skittles, this new vaccine was low hanging fruit.