RFK Jr is wrong about mRNA vaccines – a scientist explains how they make COVID less deadly

By Deborah Dunn-Walters, Professor of Immunology, University of Surrey

US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced he is cancelling US$500 million (£374 million) of research into mRNA vaccines, citing unproven concerns about their safety and long-term effects.

Kennedy has claimed that mRNA vaccines “encourage new mutations and can actually prolong pandemics” – a misleading statement that contradicts the scientific consensus on viral evolution and effects of vaccination.

But scientific research shows that mRNA…

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