About 32 percent of parents said that it is unlikely their children will get the influenza vaccine this year, a new poll shows.

Below are the stories of some nurses saving lives outside the workplace: 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration Sept. 27 after a brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, was found in the water supply in the city of Lake Jackson.

National COVID-19 cases surpassed 7 million this weekend, while the global death toll nears 1 million, reports The Washington Post.

The percentage of specimens testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 continues to decrease nationwide, though three regions reported an increase in the week ending Sept. 19, according to the CDC's weekly COVIDView report. 

Here are the rates of positive COVID-19 tests in each state, along with the number of new cases most recently reported and number of tests conducted per 1,000 people.

As of Sept. 28, more than 204,000 people in the U.S. have died after contracting COVID-19, according to The New York Times.

California has the most COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the U.S., according to the COVID Tracking Project. 

Wyoming has the highest COVID-19 reproduction rate, while Georgia has the lowest, according to rt.live. 

In 2019, women in the U.S. were more likely to report mild, moderate or severe anxiety than men, according to a CDC analysis.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital increased its intensive care capacity 75 percent through the implementation of an alternative care model that converted general patient care units and perioperative spaces to ICUs and therefore required more critical care nurses.

Thursday, September 17 marked the celebration of World Patient Safety Day 2020. Since its inception, World Patient Safety Day has had three primary goals: enhance the global understanding of patient safety, increase public engagement in the safety of health care, and promote global actions to enhance patient safety and reduce patient harm.

California became the first state to hit 800,000 COVID-19 cases, and the U.S. will soon surpass 7 million infections, reports CNN. 

A woman posing as a nurse in Tennessee received more than four years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud, healthcare fraud, identity theft and practicing nursing without a license, according to a Sept. 23 release from the Eastern District of Tennessee Justice Department. 

From June through August, incidence of COVID-19 was highest among people ages 20 to 29 years, new CDC data analysis shows.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health will use a $1.4 million grant to establish a screening protocol to assess people for risk of firearm injury.

Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital is working to curb the spread of COVID-19 after reporting a cluster of cases in two of its medical-surgical units, reports The Boston Globe. 

Rates for vaccines, primary care and preventative services among children in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program have dropped steeply during the COVID-19 pandemic, CMS said Sept. 23. 

COVID-19 cases in the West and Midwest are driving an uptick of infections, with the nation reporting an average of 43,000 new daily cases, a 16 percent increase from last week.

Two nurses were named to Time's Most Influential People of 2020 list, including a New York City nurse who treated her hospital's first COVID-19 patient, contracted the disease herself and recovered to return to work.