Joe Biden Selects Transgender Health Official for HHS; He Forced Nursing Homes to Accept COVID Patients, Even His Own Mom
By Breitbart. President-elect Joe Biden announced Tuesday he had chosen Dr. Rachel Levine to serve as the assistant secretary of health for the Department of Health and Human Services.
Levine, born Richard Levine, is an openly transgender individual and would mark the first transgender official confirmed by the United States Senate, if approved.
Levine is currently the Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in charge of the local response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“She is a historic and deeply qualified choice to help lead our administration’s health efforts,” Biden said in a statement, praising Levine’s “steady leadership and essential expertise.”
Levine served as a controversial public official in Pennsylvania leveling business and restaurant lockdowns and bans and defending them as a critical way to stop the spread of the virus. (Read more from “Joe Biden Selects Transgender Health Official for HHS” HERE)
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Biden Health Pick Forced Nursing Homes to Accept COVID Patients
By Washington Free Beacon. Biden health nominee Rachel Levine directed Pennsylvania nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients—even as [he] pulled [his] own mother out of a longterm-care facility over pandemic concerns.
President-elect Joe Biden named Levine assistant secretary for health in a Tuesday announcement, saying [his] “steady leadership” was needed “to get people through this pandemic.” But as Pennsylvania’s health secretary, Levine faced considerable scrutiny.
Last March, [he] issued a directive requiring nursing homes to take in COVID-positive patients. Trade groups warned the decision could prove costly. The American Health Care Association said it would put “frail and older adults who reside in nursing homes at risk” and “result in more people going to the hospital and more deaths.”
Nearly two months after instituting the policy, Levine confirmed that [he] had moved [his] 95-year-old mother out of a longterm-care facility and into a hotel. At the time, more than two-thirds of Pennsylvania’s coronavirus deaths had occurred in such facilities. Multiple Republicans responded with calls for Levine’s resignation. State lawmaker Russ Diamond accused Levine of “withholding information” by failing to make Pennsylvania residents “immediately aware of her actions” and the “underlying reasons” [he] took them. . .
Pennsylvania was one of only a handful of states to issue the nursing-home directive, but it slipped under the national media radar, which focused on larger states like New York. (Read more from “Biden Health Pick Forced Nursing Homes to Accept COVID Patients” HERE)
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