Washington, United States
The President of the United States Joe Biden named Rachel Levine to be his Deputy Secretary of Health, who will be on the road to convert to the first transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate.
Levine, pediatra y Director of Health of Pennsylvania, was named as Secretary of State for Health by Democratic Governor Tom Wolf in 2017, which he says is one of the few transgender people in cargoes designated throughout the country.
Fue confirmed for the post by the Senate of Pennsylvania, dominated by Republicans, has emerged as the public outcry over the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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‘La doctora Rachel Levine traerá el firme liderazgo y la Experiencecia essencial que necesitamos para la gente supere esta pandemia, sin importar su postal código, su raza, su religióning, su sexual orientation, gender genidad o capapacidad ”, dijo Biden en una Declaration. “It is a historical and deeply qualified voice to capture the health of our administration.”
Graduate of Harvard and the Faculty of Medicine of Tulane, Levine is president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers. Has written articles on the crisis of opioids, medical marijuana, medicine for adolescents, nutritional problems and medicine for the LGBTQ community.
Biden and his transition team started negotiating with congressmen, promoting the accelerated approval of a $ 1.9 trillion plan by the president to fight the coronavirus, which has killed at least 400,000 people in the United States.
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The bus plan recruits federal emergency personnel to locate massive evacuation centers and provide 100 million munitions in the first 100 days of its governing body, while federal guests estimate the vaporized economy.
Biden dobbeltsteen adds that, in one of its first acts as president, it will ask the stadiums to use mascarillas for 100 days to prevent virus dissemination