'People are going to die': Ex-surgeon general warns on RFK Jr.’s vaccine cut

The Surgeon General during the first Trump administration says Americans' lives are at risk

because of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to cut funding for mRNA vaccines

Adams tells CBS News that slashing $500 million from the technology that powered the COVID-19

vaccines could cost lives in future outbreaks. And this idea, again, helps us develop vaccines

and new treatments for everything from cancer, melanoma, which my wife has, to HIV, to better

flu vaccines and Zika. Just last week, Kennedy announced he was ending 22 mRNA vaccine projects, pointing to data

showing that these vaccines didn't stop COVID-19 and flu infections as well as hoped

He promised to invest in better solutions, but many scientists dispute Kennedy's ysis

of the data. Adams said that without mRNA tech, it would have taken years longer to develop a COVID vaccine

The fastest vaccine before took six years He called this one of President Trump biggest wins Adams also spoke out about last week deadly shooting at the CDC in Atlanta that left the gunman and a local police officer dead

How you respond to a crisis defines a leader. And quite frankly, Secretary Kennedy has failed in his

first major test in this regard. It took him over 18 hours to issue a tepid response to these

horrific shootings. And that's not even considering how his inflammatory rhetoric in the past

have actually contributed to a lot of what's been going on. In a brief statement, Kennedy expressed condolences to the family of Officer David Rose

and the CDC community after the shooting. He said no one should face violence while protecting

public health and promise support for CDC staff during this time. But Adams said Kennedy promised

to, quote, drain the cesspool at the CDC during his presidential campaign. He said Kennedy's

rhetoric may have been taken too far. Adams warned that when people don't trust public health workers

some may see violence as justified. For Straight Arrow News, I'm Kaylee Carey

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