Plans backed by key health figures in the Trump Administration could suspend covid injections for all age groups in the US
Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withhold federal funding from schools and universities that require students to be vaccinated against covid. The Trump Administration has also terminated the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s (“CDC’s”) “Wild to Mild” flu vaccination campaign, which aimed to encourage high-risk groups to get vaccinated.
Now President Trump’s Administration is considering a plan that could lead to a suspension of mRNA covid injections for all age groups in the United States.
Key health figures in the administration, including Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who has been nominated to lead the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”), previously backed a petition calling for the mRNA vaccines to be paused and re-tested due to concerns about side effects and deaths.
As reported by the Daily Mail on Wednesday, “Covid vaccines could be suspended for all age groups in America under radical new plans backed by key health figures in the Trump Administration.” The Daily Mail doesn’t provide information about the “radical new plans,” only that “several experts poised for top jobs in US health agencies” have stated the injections are causing widespread adverse effects and deaths.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who has been nominated to lead the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”), has backed a petition, ‘The HOPE Accord’, calling for the mRNA “vaccines! to be paused and retested.
The HOPE Accord states that there is a causal link between the mRNA injections and an alarming rise in excess deaths worldwide, with hundreds of thousands of more people in the US dying than would normally be expected during and after the pandemic. It states that the burden of proof falls on those advocating for the vaccines to demonstrate that they are not resulting in net harm, and until such evidence is presented, regulators should suspend their use as a matter of standard medical precaution.
Related: Leading doctors sign HOPE Accord calling for the suspension of all covid mRNA “vaccines”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is the newly appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), has privately expressed concerns about the vaccines and has signalled that he is open to axing them if the data supports it.
Kennedy has expressed uncertainty about the effectiveness of covid injections, stating that he doesn’t know whether they work due to a lack of a good surveillance system, while the communications director for his presidential bid, Del Bigtree, has suggested that the vaccines are causing excess deaths and leaving people vulnerable to infections.
Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist being considered for a health advisory role and who has also signed The HOPE Accord, has called for the injections to be suspended and reassessed.
Kash Patel, who has been nominated as Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) director, has previously promoted Warrior Essentials, a wellness company, which sells three different supplements claiming to undo the damage from the spike protein induced by the covid “vaccines.”
How a ban would be implemented is still not clear, the Daily Mail said. A total ban would require the FDA to withdraw its approval status for safety or effectiveness reasons.
In his new role as head of HHS, Kennedy has power over the CDC panel that decides the immunisation schedule for children and adults. And as NIH chief, Dr. Bhattacharya could prioritise funding research into vaccines, potentially revealing harms or safety concerns that other agencies could use to ban them.
Some US states and districts have already moved to ban covid injections or are considering banning them.
In Idaho, the Southwest District Health Board voted last year to halt its covid vaccination programme, becoming the first health district in the US to enact such a ban.
In Montana, a bill to ban mRNA vaccines was introduced but was voted down by the state House of Representatives on 19 February 2025.
A bill was introduced on 14 February in the Kentucky House of Representatives that would ban, until 1 July 2035, the administration of “any human gene therapy product for any infectious disease.”
And according to the Daily Mail, bans are being considered in Tennessee, Iowa and Washington.
