A Better Flu Vaccine Is Possible, if Team RFK Jr. Stays Out of the Way

The Slatest Flu season is inevitable. This year’s could be better. Aug 06, 20265:44 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images and Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images. This story is adapted from the Slatest newsletter. You can sign up here to get it in your inbox every day. The Food and Drug Administration approved a potentially revolutionary flu vaccine yesterday, and the push alerts came rolling in. The bureaucratic, multistep process for bringing new shots to market used to be the uncontroversial stuff of trade publications and medical journals, not national news. That has changed under an administration that tends to sow doubt about vaccines. But are Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other Trump officials really backing down on their vaccine skepticism? Let’s weigh the