President-elect Joe Biden has picked Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving her poised to become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the US Senate.
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Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine, picked to be the next assistant secretary of health, could become the first transgender official confirmed by Congress.
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As they refine a complicated distribution strategy, health care workers in Western Pennsylvania have been forced to give covid vaccine doses to people who are not in top priority groups to avoid wasting precious leftover shots.
After long days of vaccinating front-line health care workers, nurses have described calling friends and family members, frantically trying to find someone willing to receive the shot at the last minute.
Public health experts and state officials say such a recourse is not ideal, but it’s the best hospitals can do to contend with one of the Pfizer vaccine’s key requirements: once taken out of cold storage, vaccine vials spoil if not used within six hours. They can’t be refrozen.