Tag: Department of Health and Human Services

New York Army National Guard Spec. Linda Nquibn puts together a COVID-19 test kit at the Armory at Sage Colleges in Albany, N.Y. on April 11, 2020. Thirty New York Army and Air National Guardsmen are putting together COVID 19 test kits for the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Lab. The goal is to build 15,000 kits per day.Testing kits will be transported to testing centers all around New York State.

National Security

Governors use National Guard for coronavirus testing but need government help for test kits

Abraham Mahshie · April 24, 2020 5:12 pm

In this Aug. 25, 2018, photo, rookie Democratic candidate Lauren Underwood poses for a photo in Chicago. If elected to the U.S. House, Underwood would be the first woman and first minority to represent the predominantly white district once represented by GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert.

Obama administration health official now a congressional critic of Trump over mask shortages

Emily Brooks, Naomi Lim · April 24, 2020 5:08 pm

President Trump signed into law the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 on Friday. It reauthorizes a program in which drug and device makers pay the FDA a fee for every new product application, and the agency uses that money to hire more people and speed up approvals. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Smashing ‘obsolete rules’: Trump plans massive health deregulation after coronavirus

Rob Crilly · April 24, 2020 7:00 am

Ivanka Trump and Former President Trump's pastor, Paula White, left, and Ivanka Trump, spent Tuesday deliver "Farmers to Families" food boxes at White's Florida City of Destiny church and private homes.

‘Don’t you have a bat to eat?’: New HHS spokesman deletes derogatory tweets about Chinese

Mike Brest · April 23, 2020 8:54 pm

Beltway Confidential

It sure looks like the New York Times got played by the former HHS expert who says his firing was ‘retaliation’

Becket Adams · April 23, 2020 5:06 pm

Doctor demoted for hydroxychloroquine concerns hires Blasey Ford lawyers

Madison Dibble · April 23, 2020 12:46 am

HHS doctor says he was demoted for pushing back on hydroxychloroquine treatment touted by Trump

Cassidy Morrison · April 22, 2020 8:27 pm

RML Specialty Hospital nurse Rolanda Clark, left, talks to a Cook County sheriff's officer during a protest in front of the Cook County Jail in Chicago, Friday. Sheriffs and other first responders are still without needed equipment to protect themselves from the coronavirus.

Washington Secrets

Sheriff’s ‘desperate’ plea for tests and protection equipment goes unanswered

Paul Bedard · April 15, 2020 8:05 pm

A nurse wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) walks toward the emergency room door, Sunday, April 5, 2020, at Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York. Located in downtown Brooklyn, the public hospital is one of several in New York city treating high numbers of coronavirus cases during the current viral pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

HHS watchdog finds ‘severe’ and ‘widespread’ shortages of coronavirus tests and masks

Jerry Dunleavy · April 6, 2020 4:12 pm

National Security

DOD offers command and control for civilian call-up of doctors

Abraham Mahshie · April 3, 2020 10:58 pm

Hundreds of thousands of medical supplies confiscated from price gougers sent to New York and New Jersey

Anna Giaritelli · April 2, 2020 12:20 pm

FDA issues emergency approval of anti-malaria drugs to treat coronavirus

Caitlin Yilek · March 30, 2020 11:33 am