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So far, Ken Paxton is the only attorney general to investigate pediatricians for vaccinating children. (Jewett, 10/5)

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a new research initiative at the National Institutes of Health to study vaccine injuries on Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. Kennedy visited the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, to unveil the initiative, said the people, who weren’t authorized to discuss the event publicly. (Cohrs Zhang and Raman, 10/5)

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that it will not hear the case of a group of former city of Bellingham, Washington, employees who were fired for refusing to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. No reason was given, as is often the case for denied petitions. The employees – which include EMTs, police officers, firefighters, a senior inspector and a wastewater collections supervisor – filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Bellingham and former Mayor Seth Fleetwood in June 2024 over Fleetwood’s 2021 executive order requiring city employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine. (Edelman, 10/5)

Vaxcyte said Monday that its experimental pneumococcal vaccine hit the primary endpoints in a Phase 3 clinical trial, setting up the California-based biotech to compete with Pfizer and Merck. (Mast, 10/5)

University of South Florida researchers are developing a new malaria vaccine that would prevent the return of the disease once a person has already been infected. Unlike viral mosquito-borne illnesses such as dengue, malaria is caused by parasites in the genus Plasmodium, which are transmitted by infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. (Liguori, 10/6)