Rachel Levine hearing: Patty Murray rebukes Rand Paul for harmful misrepresentations at historic confirmation hearing CNN 2/26/2021 By Clare Foran, CNN © Biden Transition Team President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Dr. Rachel Levine to serve as assistant secretary for Health at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
A Senate confirmation hearing is now underway for Dr. Rachel Levine, President Joe Biden s pick to serve as assistant health secretary, who would make history as the first out transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate.
Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, the chair of the Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee, rebuked GOP Sen. Rand Paul, saying that he had made harmful misrepresentations after he appeared to equate gender confirmation surgery with genital mutilation.
Senate panel to consider Rachel Levine s historic nomination for HHS assistant secretary
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Capt. Kelly Battese, CEO of the Haskell Indian Health Center, is pictured outside the building on Feb. 23.
A local health center that serves American Indians and Alaska Natives is further along in the COVID-19 vaccine distribution process than Douglas County as a whole, due to the smaller population size the facility is serving.
Haskell Indian Health Center is now serving all American Indians and Alaska Natives who are old enough to qualify to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Capt. Kelly Battese, the CEO of Haskell Indian Health Center, spoke to the Journal-World by phone this week about the center’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts. As of Wednesday, 3,400 doses of vaccine had been distributed at the center, 2415 Massachusetts St. Of those 3,400 doses, 2,022 were first doses and 1,378 were second doses.