It’s not just Arkansas and Louisiana, where the delta variant has been raging, that are affected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new recommendation for vaccinated people to mask indoors in some parts of the country. Most major U.S. urban areas also fall under the scope of the advisory.

Los Angeles school district officials won dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a group of employees hoping to stop a mandatory Covid-19 vaccine policy, because they hadn’t actually adopted such a policy, a federal court in California said.

Liisa Luick worked through the height of the Covid-19 pandemic lock down as a sales associate in the men’s department at the Macy’s department store in Lynnwood, Wash. Throughout that time she’s routinely masked-up even after face coverings became optional there.

Return-to-office plans carefully crafted by companies and law firms face new uncertainty from changing federal Covid-19 guidelines and the rapidly spreading Delta variant.

Staffing concerns are thwarting nursing homes—the hub of Covid-19 spread—from mandating vaccines, illustrating the difficulty of ensuring widespread jabs everywhere.

An Arkansas plan to revamp its Medicaid program without strict work requirements and to address enrollees’ social needs signals that the Biden administration’s health-care policy priorities are making an impact in red states.