NOAH WEILAND

White House officials said an “equity intervention pilot” will get more doses to communities that have been left behind in the nation’s inoculation campaign.

Experts describe the president’s drug control strategy as the most progressive since Richard Nixon appointed the nation’s first drug czar in 1971.

The move doubled to 16 the total number of tests available to each U.S. household through a program that debuted over the winter.

Hospitalizations from Covid-19 are receding, but safety-net providers are facing tremendous unmet needs from poor and uninsured patients who delayed seeking care during the pandemic.

The more important reflections of progress, Dr. Ashish K. Jha said, would be whether health care systems are strained, and whether people are hospitalized with...

Many cities and counties say that shoring up local public health systems is crucial to recovering from the pandemic and addressing entrenched health disparities.