Trump's HHS halts risky multimillion-dollar Biden-era COVID vaccine project | 25 Feb 2025 | Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. paused a multimillion-dollar contract from the Biden era to create a new [deadly] COVID-19 vaccine, Fox News Digital has learned. "While it is crucial that the Department and Health and Human Services (HHS) support pandemic preparedness, four years of the Biden administration's failed oversight have made it necessary to review agreements for vaccine production, including Vaxart's," Kennedy said in comment provided to Fox News Digital Tuesday. Kennedy issued a 90-day stop work order Friday related to HHS's contract with American biotech company Vaxart Inc., which is working to develop a new COVID-19 "vaccine" that would be taken orally.