{"id":180032,"date":"2025-10-01T02:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=180032"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:00:34","slug":"kff-health-news-what-the-health-kennedy-cancels-vaccine-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=180032","title":{"rendered":"KFF Health News&#8217; &#8216;What the Health?&#8217;: Kennedy Cancels Vaccine Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Health and Human Services secretary is winding down nearly $500 million in mRNA research funding, citing false claims that the technology is ineffective against respiratory illnesses \u2014 and notching a victory for critics of the covid vaccines. And President Donald Trump is demanding drugmakers drop their prices&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/podcast\/what-the-health-409-rfk-jr-mrna-vaccine-funding-august-7-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health and Human Services secretary is winding down nearly $500 million in mRNA research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180032-kff-health-news-what-the-health-kennedy-cancels-vaccine-funding.png",1024,682,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180032-kff-health-news-what-the-health-kennedy-cancels-vaccine-funding-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180032-kff-health-news-what-the-health-kennedy-cancels-vaccine-funding-300x200.png",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180032-kff-health-news-what-the-health-kennedy-cancels-vaccine-funding-768x512.png",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180032-kff-health-news-what-the-health-kennedy-cancels-vaccine-funding.png",640,426,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180032-kff-health-news-what-the-health-kennedy-cancels-vaccine-funding.png",1024,682,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180032-kff-health-news-what-the-health-kennedy-cancels-vaccine-funding.png",1024,682,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180032-kff-health-news-what-the-health-kennedy-cancels-vaccine-funding.png",1024,682,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180032-kff-health-news-what-the-health-kennedy-cancels-vaccine-funding-825x575.png",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/180032-kff-health-news-what-the-health-kennedy-cancels-vaccine-funding-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/180033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}