Kaine s Dr. Breen Act for Mental Health In Healthcare Moves Forward
FILE PHOTO: The proposal is named after Dr. Lorna Breen, a Virginia native who was an emergency room director in New York City. It aims to provide mental health services and support to health care workers. (Crixell Matthews / VPM News).
The Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, aimed at providing mental health services and support to health care workers, was approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Tuesday.
The bill, which was reintroduced by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) earlier this year, would send out tens of millions of dollars to public and private health institutions to be spent on a range of mental health education and programs. He says the money is needed to protect everyday heroes.
A number of doctors, parents have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its secretary, Xavier Becerra, in a federal court, seeking to prevent the expansion of the emergency use authorization (EUA) of COVID-19 vaccines from including children under 16 years old.
India made the “incorrect assumption” that it was finished with the Covid-19 pandemic and opened up prematurely that has left the country in such “dire straits”, America’s top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has told senators.
India has been severely affected by the unprecedented second wave of the coronavirus and hospitals in several states are reeling under the shortage of health workers, vaccines, oxygen, drugs and beds.
“The reason that India is in such dire straits now is that they had an original surge and made the incorrect assumption that they were finished with it, and what happened, they opened up prematurely and wind up having a surge right now that we’re all very well aware of is extremely devastating,” Fauci told the US Senate Health, Education, Labour and Pensions Committee during a hearing on Tuesday on the Covid-19 response.
Tribune News ServiceNew Delhi, May 12
The White House Chief Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci on Wednesday said India was in dire straits because it made the incorrect assumption that it was done with Co