A prominent group of academics is pressing the Biden administration to move faster and take stronger action to protect high-risk workers from airborne exposure to the coronavirus, urging enforceable standards to help safeguard risky workplaces including health care, food processing and prisons.

President Joe Biden said that Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc. agreed to sell more doses of their coronavirus vaccine to the U.S. faster than planned after he invoked federal law that could force their production. In a CNN town hall event in Milwaukee on Tuesday, Biden touted his administration’s ramp-up of vaccine shipments while also warning that the pandemic ...

CVS Well being will re-enter the Inexpensive Care Act exchanges come January 2022, with CEO Karen Lynch calling the market sound and estimating it might comprise as much as 15 million lives. “It is clearly stabilized over time because of among the treatments put in place,” Lynch stated. Aetna introduced it was leaving the change ...

Two Democratic senators released their version of a public option health care plan Wednesday, setting the stage for this year’s debate over how best to expand coverage to the millions of people who are uninsured. The proposal from Sens. Michael Bennet (Colo.) and Tim Kaine (Va.) would create a government-run health care plan on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...

The Ministry of Labor said late last week that it would not replace it, but build it under the Trump administration’s regulations to manage advice affecting trillions of dollars in retirement accounts. Countermeasures With many rollovers coming into effect on Tuesday, hundreds of billions of dollars a year will be transferred from 401 (k) to ...

California aims to vaccinate up to 3 million people a week by March 1 — more than double its current rate — under a distribution contract with Blue Shield that took effect Monday. The goal was set even as counties continued to face frustrating supply problems.