More than 100 doctors, nurses, politicians and health advocates are calling on President Donald Trump to prohibit mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

A letter signed by figures including Tucker Carlson, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and former Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene demands an immediate halt to all mRNA-based technology. That would include COVID-19 vaccines as well as the newly approved mRNA flu vaccines.

The letter was also sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Its signatories accused the president of having “failed” to act on mRNA vaccines despite what they described as evidence of “the harm of this technology.”

With the midterm elections just weeks away, the group warned that continued inaction could carry political consequences. If the administration keeps “ignoring our central issue of removing the mRNA platform,” they wrote, the MAHA and health freedom movements would withdraw their support for Trump.

The letter was organized by Americans for Health Freedom, a Texas-based organization that campaigns against mRNA technology and COVID-19 vaccinations.

In a statement to Our News Outlet, an HHS spokeswoman said: “Secretary Kennedy has been clear that he believes mRNA products warrant heightened scientific scrutiny.

“HHS continues to support mRNA research where the science shows promise, including in the treatment of hard-to-treat cancers.

“At the same time, HHS wound down investments in mRNA vaccines for upper respiratory viruses because the technology does not effectively protect against infection from rapidly mutating viruses such as COVID and flu.”

The Daily Mail has contacted the White House for comment.

Large clinical trials have found COVID-19 vaccines to be safe and effective at reducing the risk of hospitalization and death. Major medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, continue to support COVID vaccination.

This year, the FDA approved updated COVID booster vaccines for adults aged 65 and older, as well as people with at least one medical condition that increases their risk of severe infection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 50 million Americans received COVID vaccines during last year’s virus season, including seven million children.

Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, an ear, nose and throat specialist and a founding member of Americans for Health Freedom, organized the letter addressed to the White House and HHS.

Bowden said Greene, whom she knew through their activist work, sent her a text after learning about the campaign. The message read: “ADD MY NAME!!!”

Bowden also said Carlson contacted her after hearing about the letter, writing: “I would be honored to sign.”

The Daily Mail has contacted Carlson and Greene for comment.

The signatories also included Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a physician who has worked closely with RFK Jr. on developing the Trump administration’s MAHA agenda and has previously called for COVID-19 vaccine bans.

In the letter, Americans for Health Freedom described removing mRNA vaccines as a central goal of the MAHA agenda.

The group also argued that failing to ban the vaccines would place pregnant women and children at risk through the continued use of COVID-19 shots.

The CDC says pregnant women and very young children face a higher risk from COVID-19 because they have less robust immune systems.

In the letter, the group included seven key points that they demanded action on from the Trump administration. 

These included the appointment of Dr Erica Schwartz to lead the CDC, who said in a Senate hearing in July that mRNA technology was safe and effective, and the approval of new mRNA COVID shots for the winter flu season.

Authors of the letter raised concern over the approval of the new mRNA flu shot, which they claim ‘was not tested against a true placebo, lacks long-term safety data and did not measure hospitalization or death.’ 

The group also cited issue over an up to $1.24 billion HHS contract for Pfizer ‘for future mRNA products, including products for children.’

In an interview, Bowden, who said she believed in vaccines before the COVID vaccine rollout, described the letter as her group’s ‘Hail Mary.’

‘The administration has continued to brush this issue under the rug. But I have seen hundreds of patients with injuries due to COVID vaccines,’ she said. 

‘I am open to using mRNA for cancer research. You can tolerate moderate risk there because, if you don’t do anything, cancer is going to kill someone. 

‘But COVID is a minor illness at this point. I can’t remember the last time I was worried about a COVID patient.’

Trump developed mRNA COVID vaccines during his first term in Operation Warp Speed, which cost an estimated $12.4 billion.

Analyses have credited the shots with saving more than 14.4 million lives worldwide, including three million in the US, and for getting society back to normal faster during the pandemic.

But controversy erupted over the shots after the CDC said there was an association between the vaccines and the rare side effects of myocarditis, which causes inflammation of the heart muscle, and pericarditis, inflammation of the lining around the heart.

Thousands of Americans, including teachers, airline staff and sanitation workers, were also fired after they refused to get the vaccines when they became mandated by some employers.

There was also mounting backlash after US public health officials continued to recommend booster doses to school-age children and young adults, despite data showing the groups were at a vanishingly low risk of hospitalization or death from the virus.

Virtually all COVID vaccines administered in the US are now mRNA vaccines. Last month, the FDA also approved the country’s first-ever mRNA flu vaccine for use during this year’s respiratory virus season.

The Trump administration has repeatedly reviewed vaccination policy in the US during the president’s second term, including that for COVID vaccines.

In May last year, RFK Jr said the CDC would no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy children and healthy pregnant women.

Three months later, the FDA approved the updated COVID shot for the 2025-2026 winter virus season, but said they should only be used in people over 65 and those with at least one underlying condition that puts them at severe risk from the virus.

The CDC says that adults over 65 are at higher risk from COVID and other viruses because they have a weaker immune system.

In August, Trump signed an executive order slashing the number of vaccines on the CDC’s children’s inoculation schedule from 17 to 11, and moved the COVID shot to shared decision-making, meaning parents should consult their doctors about whether to inoculate their children against the condition.

The letter also criticized this decision for reducing the number of vaccines while elevating pneumococcal and HPV shots into a ‘universal core recommendation’ and adopting shared decision-making, which the authors called constitutionally corrosive.

Last week, RFK Jr told attendees at an event for Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group that he founded, in Washington DC, that they had a ‘friend in the White House.’

Bowden, who is currently fighting for her medical license in her home-state of Texas after she prescribed ivermectin, a deworming drug, to a patient to treat COVID, said she and her children had received all required vaccines until she became concerned by the COVID vaccine rollout. Neither she nor her children received a COVID vaccine.

She said: ‘I am pro data transparency. What I didn’t realize prior to the pandemic is that none of the vaccines have been tested like the treatments for other diseases have been tested.

‘I continue to see patients on a daily basis in my office who have been harmed by these COVID shots. I’ve never seen anything like it in my career. 

‘In the first two years following the rollout of the [COVID] shots, hundreds of patients came to see me with injuries that were consistent [with vaccine injuries].

‘The most frequent condition I am seeing is POTS, or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, which is basically when blood pressure drops erratically or the pulse jumps erratically with no trigger, it’s very debilitating.

‘I have seen patients who have a hard time functioning, I see strange neuropathy, I see severe localized pain. I see tremors. That’s very common. I’m thinking of this one patient who’s a marathon runner with a left arm that won’t stop shaking.’