Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to do more to rein in the coronavirus to avoid the “worst-case scenario” of an overburdened health care system.

Insurers that offer individual health plans on the Obamacare exchanges could see a reduction in the user fee associated with listing those plans if a proposed rule from the U.S. health agency becomes finalized.

When three prison inmates were infected with the coronavirus in South Korea early last spring, corrections officers responded swiftly.

An insurer may pursue a declaratory judgment action in federal court to determine if it has to defend a health-care practice in state lawsuits over the practice’s employment of a unlicensed therapist because the questions to be resolved aren’t implicated in the state cases, a federal court in Virginia said.

A trade group representing Oregon’s restaurants lost its bid in federal court for a ruling blocking the governor’s executive order imposing a statewide two-week “freeze” in an effort to slow the spread Covid-19 as the pandemic escalates.

Battelle Memorial Institute failed to show that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention improperly awarded a CSRA LLC $23 million task order for consultation and research services to prevent influenza epidemics and pandemics, the GAO said.