The largest global study has ever ended in the integrity of only Covid-19 vaccines, just shy of completion, after being in the comprehensive financing discounts of the Trump administration.
The global vaccine network, which was established by the New Zealand vaccine specialist in 2019, has already produced a New Zealand vaccine specialist, Helen Betis Harris, based in the United States, Stephen Black, some of the world’s most comprehensive tools in the world Studies on the effectiveness of the vaccine and safetyBased on data from more than 300 million people.
Auckland University hosts the network, which cooperates with institutions and experts all over the world.
The pioneering project for five years to assess the safety of Covid vaccines through hundreds of millions of people is no longer more than $ 10 million from the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2021, but after a recent funding review by the Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE), it can no longer finish the project.
The network is looking into the data of millions of people to assess the effectiveness of vaccines, analyze the risks and benefits and respond to issues such as vaccination frequency.
Betis Harris, an associate professor at Oakland University, said that doing so requires “a tremendous study force, the enormous population and diversity.”
She told the Guardian newspaper that the financing for the global vaccine safety project “suddenly cut … without warning, without planning.”
The second Trump administration has started comprehensive discounts for American scientific institutions and government departments, in addition to research and aid programs, which affected projects all over the world.
On April 1, Nearly 10,000 people It has lost their jobs in agencies including the Center for Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration and the National Health Institutes of Health in continuing one of the largest fans in American history.
Betis Harris said that the cuts in the center of diseases control not only affect the “lower dollar” of the data network, but will miss science, scientific institutions and scientists.
“It is difficult to clarify the effect of the Trump administration on the withdrawal of these huge amounts of financing worldwide.”
She said that the Covid vaccine project needs approximately $ 2 million to finish its work. The network hopes to fill the financial gap the financial gap.
At the same time, the loss of such research risks creates the conditions of misinformation around the vaccines of prosperity.
Betis Harris said: “We have seen this on steroids during the epidemic period, and now, by dismantling many institutions that have some power in space, I opened it wide open for various accounts,” said Betis Harris.
The services of the University of Auckland – the trade arm of the university that support research programs such as the global vaccine network – confirmed project financing.
Recently, the Center for Craft Craftsman has told the financing of this financing [project] “You will stop the immediate impact,” said Dr. Greg Morrison, CEO of Uniservices.
“We are now in the process of integrating and securing the data and materials created on the safety of the vaccine and the search [project] Gathering since 2019. “
The network has published “many important scientific results since its establishment” and some of its other projects will continue because of its financing separately.
the New Zealand The Ministry of Health said it was aware of the decision to finish the financing of the study. “At this stage, the ministry did not receive a request for financing,” he said.
