Only 1 in 4 parents believe the flu shot is effective, and 1 in 8 parents worry about vaccine safety for both flu shots and routine childhood vaccines, according to a new article published in the journal Pediatrics.

Sexual activity has dropped among 25-to-34-year-old U.S. men and women in the last two decades, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

As the world turned its attention to preventing the spread of the new coronavirus, many countries pressed pause on immunization programs and vaccine efforts, resulting in a spike of vaccine-preventable diseases and deaths, The New York Times reports.

Clinicians have accused Albuquerque, N.M.-based Lovelace Women's Hospital of racial profiling, saying a policy designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is unfairly targeting Native American women, according to an investigative report from ProPublica and New Mexico In Depth.

Patients who leave the hospital against medical advice are nearly twice as likely to be readmitted within 30 days, a study published in JAMA Network Open found. 

As of June 14, Arizona had the highest COVID-19 reproduction rate and New Jersey had the lowest, according to rt.live, a website that calculates the rate at which the virus is spreading in all 50 states.

New York City is the latest city to potentially reverse relaxed lockdown measures, while a new study finds that race may be a key indicator in COVID-19 mortality, even after accounting for other factors such as underlying health conditions. 

Four U.S. regions contributed to a national increase in positive COVID-19 tests in the week ending June 6, according to the CDC's weekly COVIDView report. 

Many epidemiologists do not expect to hug a friend, attend a sporting event or stop regularly wearing a mask for at least a year or more, according to The New York Times.

People with type O blood may be less susceptible to COVID-19, according to new research cited by The Wall Street Journal.

Fever was the most common clinical characteristic among 17 coronavirus patients with pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome, a recent study conducted in New York City found.

A model predicts that deaths per day from COVID-19 in the U.S. will shoot up in September, after a couple of months of decline, according to CNN.

The average yearly number of preventable occupational lung disease deaths decreased 40.4 percent from 1999 to 2018, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published June 12. 

Below are nine hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking chief nursing officers. 

Houston is "getting close" to reimposing a lockdown, city and county officials said June 11, according to Bloomberg.

Amy Acton, MD, has resigned as director of the Ohio Department of Health, effective immediately, according to Cleveland.com.

Florida has reported more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases per day for eight out of the last nine days, and the state's total now stands at more than 69,000, according to the Palm Beach Post.

In New York, churches serving people of color have joined forces with the governor's office and Northwell Health to offer free COVID-19 testing in hopes of expanding access to black and Hispanic residents who are disproportionately affected by the pandemic, according to The New York Times.

The nurse manager role is challenging on a normal day, let alone during a pandemic when leading a newly created unit with a team of employees reassigned from other parts of a hospital that is flooded with gravely ill COVID-19 patients.

An Ohio state senator was fired from his post as an emergency room physician after asking whether "the colored population" has been disproportionately affected by the pandemic because they "do not wash their hands as well as other groups," according to the Dayton Daily News.