{
  "id": 17715,
  "url": "https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/498456/flu-influenza-robert-kennedy-jr-vaccine-moderna",
  "title": "The strange reason flu shots have been so hard to improve",
  "summary": "On August 5, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services canceled 22 mRNA vaccine projects worth roughly $500 million and told the country it would stop investing in the technology that had brought us life-saving Covid vaccines. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic, claimed that the data showed these vaccines […]",
  "authors": "Bryan Walsh",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "healthcare,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-08T12:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-09T05:10:05.170Z",
  "source_slug": "x-vox-future-perfect",
  "source_name": "Vox Future Perfect",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.vox.com/future-perfect",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17715",
  "original_url": "https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/498456/flu-influenza-robert-kennedy-jr-vaccine-moderna",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}