Joe Biden plans to use America s diversity as an essential strength in his cabinet.
Long before he won US Election 2020, Joe Biden had promised that if he gets elected, he will build a team that looks like America ; diverse, inclusive and young. Team Biden will indeed be diverse. The choices of people in this team represent diversity of ideology, background, race and religion.
61 per cent of the White House appointees are women. 54 per cent are people or colour. 11 per cent are of LGBTQ community. 20 per cent of the appointee are first-generation Americans. And 40% per cent of them have children at home.
U.S. Representative Clay Higgins, who represents most of Acadiana in Congress, has announced federal funds that are being made available for dredging and waterway projects, as well as community health centers across the region.
First, over $600,000.00 is being made available in supplemental funding for three 3rd District community health centers as part of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Health Center Cluster Program.
Teche Action Board will receive $132,480.
SWLA Center for Health Services will receive $199,500.
Iberia Comprehensive Community Health Center will receive $271,680.
“Louisiana’s community health centers are critical providers of primary care services in our rural and underserved areas, said Rep. Higgins in a press release. These investments help our local health centers perform and enable them to continue providing quality care for our communities.”
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Healthcare providers that received Provider Relief Funds (“Funds”) from the Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) have anticipated an initial February 15, 2021 deadline for reporting on the use of Funds. However, today HHS issued a release stating that “PRF recipients will now be required to submit their reporting requirements on their use of these funds later than previously announced.” HHS explained that the change was due to the late December passage of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, which added another $3 billion in funding and included language specific to reporting requirements. In order to ensure reporting is consistent with the December law, HHS is taking the additional time to roll out the full reporting process.
January 19, 2021 at 9:14 am EST | by Chris Johnson
Rachel Levine tapped to become first out transgender Senate-confirmed official
Pennsylvania Secretary of Health
Rachel Levine has been nominated to become assistant secretary of health. (File photo courtesy of the Office of Governor Tom Wolf)
Rachel Levine, who as Pennsylvania secretary of health guided her state through the coronavirus pandemic, has been tapped to become assistant secretary for health under the Biden administration, setting her up to become the first openly transgender U.S. Senate-confirmed federal official.
The Biden transition team on Tuesday, the day before Joe Biden’s inauguration as president, announced in a statement Levine was chosen for the senior health role, which is the No. 3 leadership position at the Department of Health & Human Services.
Alabama vaccine distribution worst in the nation
Updated Jan 17, 2021;
Today’s guest columnist is Frank McPhillips.
When a deadly pandemic collides with exponential growth, the result is frightening. We have reached that point in Alabama, and we must speed up the distribution of vaccines.
During October, roughly 30,000 Alabamians contracted COVID-19. By November, the number rose to 42,500 in one month. In December, the number of cases more than doubled to 111,000. And, January’s cases are rising even faster than December’s.
As of this writing (January 12), more than 400,000 Alabamians have contracted the virus since the first official case on March 12, and the death toll stands at 5,347. It’s not easy to comprehend the magnitude of 400,000 cases. That is virtually equivalent to every man, woman and child living in Mobile County, our second most populous county. No other state with our population has witnessed nearly so many cases.