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The Miami Herald Nurses give the COVID-19 vaccine to Miami-Dade County residents with appointments at the Tropical Park site in Miami on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. WLRN staff continues to add updates on testing and vaccination sites, executive orders and messages from government officials, and the latest news on COVID-19. You can find information on free food and food distributions here. The dedicated website for the Florida Department of Health, including information about the numbers of cases, can be found here. The dedicated website from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Biden Names New Acting VA Secretary, Some Permanent Staff Dat Tran has been serving as principal deputy assistant secretary for the VA Office of Enterprise Integration. (Photo: Dept. of Veterans Affairs) 20 Jan 2021 Dat Tran, one of the Department of Veterans Affairs' top experts in strategic planning and information technology, has been named acting head of the department as Denis McDonough, President Joe Biden's nominee for VA secretary, waits for confirmation from the U.S. Senate. Tran currently serves as principal deputy assistant secretary for the VA Office of Enterprise Integration, wh...

. WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden’s team took over leadership of the Department of Veterans Affairs on Wednesday, the agency was facing its highest death rate since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. While Biden was being sworn in as the country’s 46th president, the VA reported another grim milestone: More than 8,000 patients had died of the virus — 1,000 of those deaths occurring in the last 13 days. On Thursday, 8,221 veterans were dead, as well as 114 agency employees. The VA operates America’s largest health care system, and the task of treating coronavirus patients ...

Biden names temporary VA leadership as his secretary nominee awaits Senate debate January 20 President-elect Joe Biden, right, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, left, look on as former Obama White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough delivers remarks after being introduced as Biden’s nominee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs at the Queen Theater on Dec. 11, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Veterans Affairs’ data and technology expert will serve as acting secretary for the entire department as the Senate considers the nomination of Denis McDono...