RFK Jr. Is Putting American Lives At Risk

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

If you got a COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna or Pfizer, congratulations, you got a vaccine that uses mRNA to teach your cells how to fight the disease. But Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is doing his best to undermine their future use. On Tuesday, he announced the cancellation of $500 million in grants and contracts aimed at developing more mRNA vaccines. The decision has received near-universal condemnation from public health experts — even President Donald Trump’s first-term Surgeon General said it will 'cost lives.' Dr. Fiona Havers, an infectious-disease specialist at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a former senior advisor on vaccine policy for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, joins us to talk about Kennedy’s dangerous decision and the risk it poses to public health. And in headlines: President Donald Trump says he wants a new Census, The U.S. Air Force said it’s denying the option to retire early to all trans service members who have served between 15 and 18 years, and tariff day is (unfortunately) finally here.

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0:00.0	It's Friday, August 8th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaday, the show that wants to know the audience for a podcast from Katie Miller, also known as Elon Musk's lap dog, or Mrs. White House Deputy Chief of Staff and noted terrible person, Stephen Miller.
0:17.2	Hi, I'm Katie Miller. Welcome to my podcast and welcome to my living room.
0:23.0	You may be wondering what I'm doing here hosting a podcast.
0:26.3	I am wondering.
0:27.7	I'm wondering about a lot of things, but I am definitely wondering about that.
0:43.5	On today's show, President Donald Trump says he wants a new census, but mercifully, that might be difficult.
0:47.4	And after months of back and forth, the president's tariffs are now in effect.
0:52.7	But let's start by talking about vaccines, specifically MRNA vaccines.
0:57.5	If you got a COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna or Pfizer, congratulations.
1:02.2	You got a vaccine that uses MRNA to teach yourselves how to fight the disease.
1:07.3	But Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says, no more of that.
1:12.8	On Tuesday, he announced a cancellation of half a billion dollars in grants and contracts to help develop more of these kinds of vaccines. And he says that's good? He posted a video
1:19.6	about his decision. Most of these shots are for flu or COVID, but as the pandemic showed us,
1:25.0	MRNA vaccines don't perform well against viruses that infect the upper respiratory tract.
1:31.9	Here's the problem.
1:33.5	MRNA only codes for a small part of the viral proteins,
1:37.4	usually a single antigen.
1:40.1	One mutation and the vaccine becomes ineffective.
1:43.9	This is not true. I cannot say this ineffective. This is not true.
1:45.2	I cannot say this enough.
1:47.0	This is a lie, caged in just enough technical medical jargon to make Kennedy sound reasonable.
1:52.4	An HHS statement says going forward, the department will lean toward other, more established kinds of vaccines.
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