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Amid optimism and relief, officials concerned about unvaccinated populations.

Palm had served as a key member of President Barack Obama‘s administration, as senior counselor to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 2014 until 2017, overseeing the operational agenda for the public health and human services agencies with more than 60,000 employees. She was also a senior adviser to the White House Domestic Policy Council during implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Before this, she had worked five years as a health policy adviser to then-Sen. But that wasn’t good enough for the Republican-dominated Wisconsin State Senate, which...

Andrea Palm, tapped as No. 2 at HHS, has been vilified by Wisconsin Republicans. But her state’s approach to covid-19 vaccinations is working.

How Wisconsin turned around its lagging vaccination program — and buoyed a Biden health pick Isaac Stanley-Becker, Dan Diamond © Scott Bauer/AP Andrea Palm, formerly secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, speaks to reporters in 2019. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File) When President Biden announced in January that he would make Wisconsin’s top health official his No. 2 at the Department of Health and Human Services, the state seemed like a poor model for the nation’s most crucial public health priority: fighting the pandemic. Wisconsin had just ...

Can You Choose Which Covid-19 Vaccine You Get?     The bottom line For now, you’re unlikely to have a choice. Medical experts say it’s important to take whichever vaccine is offered to you, and both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that are currently authorized in the U.S. have been shown to be highly effective at preventing disease. As vaccine supply increases and more options become available in the coming months and years, there may be more scope for doctors to recommend different types of shots for different populations. The details Currently, there is a little...