Public Health

On June 15, Texas reported 2,326 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized in the state, a record high, CBS News reports.

Fifty-six percent of Americans report being extremely or very concerned about a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, a new Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index poll shows.

The pandemic is flaring in many parts of the South and West, while waning in much of the Northeast and Midwest. 

Patients with underlying health issues are 12 times more likely to die from COVID-19, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released June 15.

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.

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.