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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com

let's remember that it was an NIH scientist who designed the core of the Moderna Covid vaccine *over a single weekend*

Lindsay Wiley@lindsaywiley.bsky.social

Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.

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Away we go
@asimpleplan220.bsky.social

unfortunately government funded medicine isn’t free to the American’s whose tax dollars funded it. I am torn. I support scientists and research, but the pharmaceutical companies are the largest beneficiaries of that research while Americans are bankrupted trying to afford the care that’s discovered

Stressed_Scientist
@wittyretorthere.bsky.social

There are multiple ways the government can force companies to pay for government research when it becomes profitable (yes we rarely use them but that is a matter of getting right people in right positions), there is no way besides decades of catch up to make up for any significant pause in research.

joey369.bsky.social
@joey369.bsky.social

This is nonsense. The CSIRO (Australia research institute) took 4 days to build a covid vaccine, it takes months, years to test it, normally, yes, but to build the Vax, a week tops. CSIRO didn't release theirs, but had it ready if big pharma across the world couldn't supply.

Shadow and Light
@shadowandlight.bsky.social

Freezing NIH funding and withdrawing from the WHO isn’t just shameful—it’s deadly. Public health relies on research, collaboration, and preparedness. These actions leave us vulnerable, and lives will be lost. Shadows rise when we abandon the light of progress and care. 🌗✨

Alexia Charlotte
@alexiacharlotte.bsky.social

Let's also take this moment to remember that Pete Hegseth doesn't believe in hand washing. On one hand - the institute that helps Americans stay healthy is being shuttered. On the other, it doesn't help much if we have to share air with those who don't follow directions from .gov

Hypoautonomic, BS
@hypoautonomic.bsky.social

that is because 1.) mRNA platform allows for this by its nature (long explanation) 2.) the part where they already knew how to modify the spike protein from previous research. so because of decades of research already funded and done

Timothy Koller
@timothykoller.bsky.social

Part of the issue is that those people don't believe the vaccine actually did anything to vaccinate against covid. They don't believe it was possible for someone to create a vaccine that quickly, and some don't believe vaccines are necessary. They probably think NIH is corrupt or some other nonsense

Ailyhsaun (she/her)
@foreverlearning.bsky.social

What they do not realize is that they already had the research and testing etc from when SARS first came up back in 2002. As I understood it, they just had to refine it for SARS-CoV-2. Hence the faster turnaround to produce it. About other vaccines being needed, see the rise in things like polio.

DocLT
@doclt.bsky.social

Remember that the Covid vaccine had already been in development for over a decade to address SARS-1, close relative of covid (SARS-2). So the delivery system was already to go, he just had to design the payload. It’s still impressive work, but overall the vaccine was not some half-assed release.