Montana seeks to ban mRNA shots as vaccine hesitancy soars

[Eugene]

Source: Semafor

Montana seeks to ban mRNA shots as vaccine hesitancy soars

Tom Chivers and Mizy Clifton
Updated Feb 18, 2025, 10:21am EST
North America

Montana’s state legislature will vote on a bill to ban mRNA vaccines, the latest indication of soaring vaccine hesitancy on the political right in the US following the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a vaccine skeptic — to lead the nation’s health and medical science agencies as part of the new Trump administration.

Vaccines using mRNA technology rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the shots credited with helping to prevent and treat the disease. The same technology is being developed to vaccinate against some forms of cancer and other infectious diseases, with the scientists who first developed the tech winning the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Yet vaccine hesitancy in the US has soared since the pandemic, and the medical reality has similarly become increasingly apparent: One Texas county where there are widespread vaccine exemptions is currently the epicenter of a measles outbreak, while high rates of flu this season have been linked to reduced vaccine rates: Flu vaccinations were at their lowest in 12 years.

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Read more: https://www.semafor.com/article/02/18/2025/montana-seeks-to-ban-mrna-shots-as-vaccine-hesitancy-soars

[Walleye]

1. Remember, medical professional saying, that patient came in dying of Covid and begging for the shot, too late

[atreides1]

2. Let them

The plus side is that the population will die out based on their own stupidity!

[Blues Heron]

3. dirty dumb people doing damn dirty deeds

sick of these evil, death dealing souless creeps in this country- America

[GiqueCee]

4. Who knew...

... that the Montana legislature was a government body crammed full of fully accredited communicable disease researchers and epidemiologists qualified to make decisions like this? They must have gotten their diplomas by mail from Trump University.
What irredeemable assholes.
Montana's a pretty big place. Maybe we can turn half the state into a penal colony for all of the malicious fuckheads Trump has turned loose on the nation. Musk will get his own planet: MARS! Good luck breathing there, Elon, you evil piece of shit.