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WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has picked Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to lead the Commerce Department, helping set trade policy and promote U.S.

Biden builds out Cabinet with choices for Commerce and Labor secretaries Bart Jansen, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT President-elect Joe Biden announced Thursday his choices of Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to lead the Commerce Department and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to head the Labor Department. In fleshing out his economics team, Biden also named: • Isabel Guzman to head the Small Business Administration. She is a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff at the a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With COVID-19 surging and vaccinations off to a slow start, President-elect Joe Biden will rapidly release most available vaccine doses to protect more people, his office said Friday, a reversal of Trump administration policies. “The president-elect believes we must accelerate distribution of the vaccine while continuing to ensure the Americans who need it most get it as soon as possible," spokesman T.J. Ducklo said in a statement. Biden “supports releasing available dos...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... WASHINGTON — With COVID-19 surging and vaccinations off to a slow start, President-elect Joe Biden will rapidly release most available vaccine doses to protect more people, his office said Friday, a reversal of Trump administration policies. “The president-elect believes we must accelerate distri...

Pandemic backlash jeopardizes public health powers, leaders Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Hannah Recht, Michelle R. Smith and Lauren Webber Associated Press and KHN Tisha Coleman has lived in close-knit Linn County, Kansas, for 42 years and never felt so alone. As the public health administrator, shes struggled every day of the coronavirus pandemic to keep her rural county along the Missouri border safe. In this community with no hospital, shes failed to persuade her neighbors to wear masks and take...

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Pandemic backlash jeopardizes public health powers, leaders By Associated Press | December 15, 2020 at 5:53 AM CST - Updated December 15 at 5:56 PM (AP) - Tisha Coleman has lived in close-knit Linn County, Kansas, for 42 years and never felt so alone. As the public health administrator, she’s struggled every day of the coronavirus pandemic to keep her rural county along the Missouri border safe. In this community with no hospital, she’s failed to persuade her neighbors to wear masks an...

The Health 202: Some Americans will refuse coronavirus vaccines. Who and where they are matters. Paige Winfield Cunningham with Alexandra Ellerbeck Fifteen percent of Americans in a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll say they definitely won’t take coronavirus vaccines. But they may not be a sizable enough group to seriously undermine the nation’s battle with covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. It all depends on who they are and where they live. © Brendan ...

Coronavirus pandemic backlash putting public health leaders at risk State and local public health officials have found themselves at the center of a political storm as they combat the pandemic.   Tisha Coleman has lived in close-knit Linn County, Kan., for 42 years and never felt so alone. As the public health administrator, she’s struggled every day of the coronavirus pandemic to keep her rural county along the Missouri border safe. In this community with no hospital, she’s failed...