Nevada is on the cusp of launching a statewide COVID-19 vaccine appointment registration system, with a soft launch planned in Clark County next week. Officials expect the new unified system will replace individual ones currently used by local governments.

Nevada health officials on Monday reported 391 new COVID-19 cases and 11 deaths. The latest numbers reported by the state bring the pandemic totals in Nevada to 288,739 known cases and 4,720 known deaths.

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) ...