U.S. News & World Report last week released its annual Best Medical Schools rankings, which include separate lists recognizing leading schools for research, primary care, and each of eight specialties.

As some states opt to lift their mask mandates even as coronavirus case counts rise, some people are opting to shop without masks—leaving many retail and fast-food workers feeling worried for their safety and powerless to protect themselves, Sapna Maheshwari reports for the New York Times.

Experts say America is in a race between newly emerging, more contagious coronavirus variants and the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines—but those same experts are divided on whether the variants or the vaccines are winning the race now. Here's what the latest data shows.

Many hospitals and health systems are leveraging their efforts to address racial inequity in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines as a springboard to address broader health care disparities, Modern Healthcare reports. Here's how three organizations—Kaiser Permanente, Sinai Chicago, and Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center—are establishing long-term community relationships.

CDC in updated guidance released Friday said fully vaccinated Americans may travel safely in the United States without taking a Covid-19 test or self-quarantining, as long as they continue to follow measures intended to contain the novel coronavirus's spread, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Georgia, Vermont, and Washington.