Moderna Chair Says US Assault on Science Is Just Beginning (3)

Moderna Inc.’s chairman says the Trump administration’s vaccine policy changes are part of a broader attack on science that may have only just begun.

“Today it may be childhood vaccines or mRNA, but tomorrow it’s everything,” Noubar Afeyan said in an interview Monday on the sidelines of the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. “We have to say not just ‘why is this happening?’ but ‘where will it stop?’”

Afeyan, a cofounder of Moderna, said he was worried that not enough people are connecting the dots between the Trump administration’s new vaccine restrictions and other moves by US ...