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don\u2019t often come to each other\u2019s defense. But after the US Department of Health and Human Services terminated a contract with drugmaker Moderna to develop an mRNA bird flu vaccine, claiming that \u201cmRNA technology remains under-tested,\u201d Pfizer\u2019s chief executive is speaking up.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry00033b6mnvpmqemj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cMRNA probably is the most utilized vaccine in the history of humanity,\u201d Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla said Friday, noting that there have been about 1.5 billion mRNA vaccine doses against Covid-19 administered worldwide from his company alone \u2013 not counting those from Moderna. \u201cSo it is extremely well-tested.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry00043b6m8g30iflh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            HHS said Wednesday that it was canceling at least $590 million in federal funding the previous administration had granted for Moderna to use its mRNA technology to develop pandemic influenza vaccines, including those against H5 avian flu viruses. The H5N1 strain has infected at least 70 people and killed one in the US since last year.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry00053b6ms5dch60e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cWe concluded that continued investment in Moderna\u2019s H5N1 mRNA vaccine was not scientifically or ethically justifiable,\u201d an HHS spokesperson said, claiming, \u201cthe reality is that mRNA technology remains under-tested, and we are not going to spend taxpayer dollars repeating the mistakes of the last administration, which concealed legitimate safety concerns from the public.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry00063b6mexj533vq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Asked his response to those comments, Bourla responded, \u201cboth of them are completely inaccurate.\u201d    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/related-content\/instances\/cmbb88wdw00043b6m05p2arab@published\" data-component-name=\"related-content\" class=\"related-content-elevate related-content--article\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n<header class=\"related-content__title related-content__title-text\" data-editable=\"content.title\">Related article<\/header>\n<section class=\"related-content__body\">\n<div class=\"related-content__image image__related-content\">\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cmb8faa0h001b28qj8zs933xo@published\" class=\"image-elevate image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"AP25010592804676.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--eq-large&quot;: 660}\" data-original-ratio=\"0.668\" data-original-height=\"2004\" data-original-width=\"3000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap25010592804676.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--show-credits&quot;: 525}\">           <\/div>\n<div class=\"image__metadata-container media__metadata-container\">\n<div class=\"image__metadata media__metadata\">\n<div class=\"image__caption attribution\">    <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">Changes are coming to the way Covid-19 vaccines are approved, and for whom.<\/span>  <\/div><figcaption class=\"image__credit\">Mary Conlon\/AP<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"related-content__headline\">        <span class=\"related-content__headline-text\" data-editable=\"content.headline\">How changes to Covid-19 vaccine policy in the US may affect you<\/span>      <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry00083b6mbgb9gmod@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            It\u2019s a \u201cvery, very important finding,\u201d Bourla said, noting that colorectal cancer rates, \u201cparticularly among younger people, are skyrocketing right now.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry00093b6mk8ingkx7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            And while Pfizer is making big bets on cancer research, its CEO said he\u2019s not taking his foot off the pedal with investment in vaccines either, despite a \u201cvery big gap\u201d between the company and HHS \u2013 particularly Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. \u2013 on their approaches to the subject.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000a3b6mtn8x8v9n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThe science is proven,\u201d Bourla said. \u201cThe things they will do that will reduce, maybe, vaccination rates will come back and bite us.\u201d Diseases will return, he said, and \u201cthat will not take a long time.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000b3b6mif9owvub@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Already, the US is experiencing one of its largest measles outbreaks since the disease was declared eliminated in this country in 2000, and rates of whooping cough, or pertussis, have increased as well.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000c3b6mrfb0x81t@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The recurrence of disease probably \u201cmeans that immediately they will have to reverse it,\u201d Bourla said, suggesting that there will be public health efforts to increase vaccination rates in response, and \u201cthey will go back to what every country in the world is doing.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000d3b6mb4qykwn4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Bourla worked with the first Trump administration to advance the company\u2019s Covid-19 vaccine through Operation Warp Speed in 2020, although he noted that Pfizer didn\u2019t accept federal funding to support vaccine development, only for the purchase of vaccines after the fact.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000e3b6mqjids84j@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            He said that despite the gap on vaccines, \u201cwhen you speak with them, including Secretary Kennedy, I have found several topics that we are in, surprisingly, alignment.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000f3b6m3sea34by@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Taking on cancer is one key area of agreement, according to the company. Bourla cited executive orders from President Donald Trump encompassing issues like addressing shorter market exclusivity for pills compared with injectable medicines under the Inflation Reduction Act \u2013 something the industry calls the \u201cpill penalty\u201d \u2013 drug discounts to hospitals in a program known as 340B, and ratcheting up scrutiny on pharmacy benefit managers\u2019 role in drug pricing.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000g3b6msfqf29gz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cWe are working to address those things as we agree to disagree on the things that divide us,\u201d Bourla said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000h3b6mr2tuyk5t@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            He noted that he is against the administration\u2019s proposed 40% budget cut for the National Institutes of Health, emphasizing that the US is \u201cthe dominant scientific force in biomedical sciences right now, and it is because we have created this ecosystem,\u201d in which NIH funding supports academic research that can lead to new discoveries picked up by the pharmaceutical industry and made into medicines.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000i3b6mlbnatg9u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cIf we break any link of this chain of this large ecosystem,\u201d Bourla said, \u201cthat\u2019s not good for us, and actually, it\u2019s a gift to our friends in China.\u201d    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cmbb8tavl000m3b6myheomyj0@published\" class=\"image_large-elevate image_large__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image_large\" data-name=\"GettyImages-1234553856.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image_large--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image_large--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image_large--eq-large&quot;: 660}\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6665\" data-original-height=\"1333\" data-original-width=\"2000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-1234553856.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n<div class=\"image_large__container \" data-image-variation=\"image_large\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image_large--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image_large--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image_large--show-credits&quot;: 525}\">           <\/div>\n<div class=\"image_large__metadata-container media__metadata-container\">\n<div class=\"image_large__metadata media__metadata\">\n<div class=\"image_large__caption attribution\">    <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">CEO Dr. Albert Bourla says Pfizer has some &#8220;very real concerns&#8221; about new requirements for clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccines.<\/span>  <\/div><figcaption class=\"image_large__credit\">Patrick T. Fallon\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000j3b6mxfrm5k4b@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Bourla also took issue with HHS\u2019s actions on Covid-19 vaccines in the past two weeks: saying that the US Food and Drug Administration will change the way it approves updated shots for people who aren\u2019t in vulnerable groups and that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend Covid-19 vaccines to healthy children and pregnant women.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000k3b6mdvwvm6ng@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            In previous years, Covid-19 vaccines had been updated in a similar way to seasonal flu shots, based on evidence that they generate an immune response; clinical trials that are required to show a vaccine\u2019s effect in preventing cases of disease are thought to take too long, potentially, to be feasible every season. What\u2019s more, the FDA and its advisers had previously deemed the vaccine updates small enough to not change their safety profile.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000l3b6m38hx0z6l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Asked whether Pfizer would be able to run clinical trials quickly enough to make updated vaccines available to everyone, not just those in vulnerable groups, Bourla said, \u201cYou are raising some very real concerns that we have.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000m3b6mo5nxrtix@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Bourla noted that the implications of the Trump administration\u2019s changes to US health agency policies aren\u2019t entirely clear. But \u201cthe issue is that that is not based on any scientific data. It\u2019s just based on a belief.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000n3b6ml8jawmot@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThe appropriate process has not been followed; this is not just: the secretary or someone at a high level issues, let\u2019s say, a new rule,\u201d he said. \u201cYou need to follow a process which is reviews, experts, professional staff of FDA and all of that.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000o3b6mafqfl32f@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Dorit Reiss, a professor of law at UC Law San Francisco, suggested that HHS\u2019s \u201cbad administrative procedure\u201d in announcing the updated CDC recommendations \u201cwill be an issue\u201d if they\u2019re challenged in court.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000p3b6m2s1n5p4j@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Would Pfizer consider filing a lawsuit?    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000q3b6mh5xeacjo@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cMy initial reaction is that I would prefer to find solutions but not create tensions,\u201d Bourla replied. \u201cBut of course, if we feel that we have to, we will.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000r3b6m958kgk4u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Overall, the CEO emphasized that he has found the administration willing to engage in discussions, noting that \u201cwe maintain a very, very close relationship\u201d with the White House.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbb7m5ry000s3b6mkxvvrj26@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cI can\u2019t complain they don\u2019t listen to us,\u201d Bourla said.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccines Prescription drugs Federal agencies Respiratory viruses See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}