WHO Chief Says US Wrong to Cut Millions From mRNA Vaccine Work

The US made a mistake when it pulled almost $500 million of funding from research into the technology that generated Covid shots, according to World Health Organization Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

“Defunding mRNA research is the wrong decision. I hope they will reconsider,” Tedros said in an interview on Bloomberg’s The Mishal Husain Show. “We are in the molecular age and this technology has a huge potential,” he said, pointing to the possibility of using mRNA vaccines to treat cancers in the future.

He also expressed belief that the US would rejoin the public ...