Biden ignores Levine's nursing home scandal, touts transgender qualifications

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• Rachel Levine
• A complete guide and amendment tracker for proposed changes to Pennsylvania’s Constitution
• Many Pa. school districts are passing up free coronavirus testing even after a rise in cases
• WATCH: A 1-on-1 exit interview with outgoing Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf
• Pa. is trying county fairs, text messages, and door-knocking to raise the vaccination rate. Success is slow coming.
• Biden HHS nominee under pressure over missing nursing home COVID-19 death data

"My mother requested and my sister and I, as her children, complied to move her to another location during the COVID-19 outbreak," Levine said. Spotlight PA relies on funding fromfoundations and readers like youwho are committed to accountability journalism that gets results. In October 2021, Levine became the first alleged female 4-star Admiral of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, a 6,000-member force that responds to health crises on the federal government’s behalf, including administering coronavirus vaccines. Last March, the department issued a guidance titled "Interim Guidance for Nursing Facilities During COVID-19" for Pennsylvania nursing home facilities to follow. On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Department of Health issued an update stating there have been 19,467 coronavirus-related deaths statewide.

Finally, as alluded to earlier, an added problem is that the excessively high deaths in nursing homes are inflating the overall COVID-19 fatality rate in Pennsylvania, which currently stands as the nation’s fourth highest. If comparing fatality rates outside of nursing homes, however, Pennsylvania’s numbers fare much better. That lower rate is a great credit to top health-care providers like the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Penn Medicine and Allegheny Health Network . And yet, one wouldn’t know that from the overall state numbers, jacked up as they are by nursing homes. The inflated numbers are a disservice to what the likes of UPMC and Penn and AHN are truly doing, and quite heroically.

Rachel Levine

After the letter was issued, Levine refuted the assertions made by Republican leaders in a press conference by saying, "There is no evidence that that policy itself contributed to that many deaths," WITF.org reported. Over the past year, Levine has garnered criticism, along with Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, regarding the state's response to the pandemic due to the high amount of coronavirus-related nursing home deaths. Joe Biden's nomination for assistant secretary of health could make history if confirmed by the Senate. Levine implemented the policy last March in her role as Pennsylvania’s health secretary. President-elect Joe Biden nominated Levine this week to serve in his administration as assistant health secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services. They were likewise aghast to hear that Dr. Levine removed her own 95-year-old mother from a nursing home.

The point of having a repugnant, demonic, hypocritical jewish tranny in charge of health policy is purely for the humiliation of the good people of PA. Soros has been and still is actively and gererously supporting the election of Judges at the state and county level in the U.S.. But it’s not the Djuize, and the friendly Kykester next door to you absolutely does not cheer it on or benefit in anyway. Sign language is a Lingua Franca – there is no English, German, Mandarin sign language. The live interpreters are there for the deaf Mexicans, Hondurans, El Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Hmong etc that can’t read the English closed caption.

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In the case of Cedarbrook Senior Care and Rehabilitation nursing home in Allentown, the missing data obscured a deadly outbreak. When data for Cedarbrook finally appeared in an August report, it revealed 80 COVID-19 deaths, the second-highest among Pennsylvania’s 693 nursing homes. According to Spotlight PA, an administrator at Cedarbrook said the facility had been regularly reporting its data to the state. The reports have been missing the data for at least 100 nursing homes since the department began issuing the reports last May. In at least one case, the missing data obscured a deadly coronavirus outbreak. More visits from nonresidents to people in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities will be permitted soon under new guidance that will be announced in the near future.

More recent versions of the reports contain data that is self-reported by nursing homes directly to the state health department using other software portals — not the electronic death reporting system as stated by Levine during the confirmation hearing. The state first started releasing weekly reports with cumulative data on resident deaths, resident cases, and staff cases for each nursing facility in May. That disclosure came after weeks of pressure from advocacy groups representing nursing home residents and families. There is no evidence to support Greene's claim that Levine placed coronavirus-positive patients in nursing home facilities, thus likely contributing "to the thousands of elderly deaths in Pennsylvania."

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At the same time, House and Senate Republicans are also calling on the state Department of Health to provide more details about its overall approach to nursing homes, citing Spotlight PA reporting on how historically weak oversight and failed plans hampered the response. HARRISBURG — Former Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine is under pressure from U.S. House Republicans to provide more details about the state’s missing nursing home data ahead of her confirmation to a post in the Biden administration. Pennsylvania's Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine confirmed on Tuesday that she recently moved her 95-year-old mother out of a personal care home.

Levine also announced on Wednesday that the state of Pennsylvania received its first shipment of remdesivir from the federal government. Although she noted that the antiviral drug is not a cure to COVID-19, it has proven to be an effective treatment in shortening recovery time in patients. The 1,200 doses received were distributed to 51 hospitals across the state. State Senator Doug Mastriano, who organized the rally, called for Levine's resignation. Mastriano said Levine has not been aggressive enough in protecting the state's older population and her actions have resulted in the large number of cases among the state's elderly care homes.

Data related to a deadly outbreak at one Lehigh County facility was not included in the reports until August — after 80 residents had died, one of the highest death tolls in a nursing home in the state. By September, more than six months since the first COVID-19 case in Pennsylvania, problems with the data had not been corrected. With many facilities still closed to visitors, advocates for nursing home residents and families said that there were few ways for families to know what was going on inside facilities and to monitor outbreaks. The first facility-level reports released by the state in May were filled with errors that took several days to correct. Those early reports were supplemented with data from PA-NEDSS, the state’s disease reporting system, which collects data from health-care systems and labs.

The Biden-Harris transition has emphasized the incoming administration's plans to combat the coronavirus pandemic. President-elect Biden has set a goal to deliver 100 million coronavirus vaccine doses within his first 100 days in office. In fact, 30 staff members at the Philadelphia Nursing Home alone have tested positive for the virus, according to the city, which owns the 402-bed facility.

I suppose in her damaged mind it was no different than an alien abduction. She described to me in detail an elderly woman with dementia being brought to the hospital. The patient wasn’t allowed to have family with her & all the staff was in hazmat suits. In that video it was claimed the globalists and governing health authorities had placed agents in every state and nearly every county of the nation.

Biden HHS pick Rachel Levine would make history as first openly transgender Senate-confirmed federal official. Levine defended her decision in a press conference last May by saying she complied with her mother's requests to be removed and that her mother is "more than competent to make her own decisions." Currently, there are more than 777,000 coronavirus positive cases in Pennsylvania. Critics, including Pennsylvania State Sen. Doug Mastriano and State Rep. Seth Grove, called out Levine for her handling of the virus, with some demanding her resignation. A month later, it appears government officials should have heeded the dire call to pursue different pandemic emergency plans.

Pa. is trying county fairs, text messages, and door-knocking to raise the vaccination rate. Success is slow coming.

UPMC’s overall handling of the virus was impressive and inspired confidence. UPMC facilities plainly did not have a COVID-19 fatality rate akin to what the Pennsylvania Department of Health was reporting for Allegheny and other counties. While Levine beefs up rules and oversight at nursing homes and long-term care facilities, ABC27 learned the health secretary’s mother recently vacated a personal care home in the Midstate. In a Wednesday press conference, Levine announced that of the 58,698 confirmed cases statewide, 12,408 cases are among residents of long-term facilities, including nursing homes and personal care homes. Of the total 3,943 deaths in Pennsylvania, 2,705 have occurred in residents in long-term facilities.

Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. "We don't know, specifically," Levine said, offering as theories that larger homes with more space have been better able to devote the room it takes to isolate infected patients. Levine said she was unsure why some facilities have been far more successful than others in limiting the damage once the virus got there. Those patients have not been the main source of COVID-19 infections inside the facilities, Levine said — she thinks a more likely culprit is the homes' own employees. Levine's response to the pandemic was the target of protests in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Pa. law protects workers who are approved for medical marijuana — but once they use it, it’s a different story.

Biden ignores Levine’s nursing home scandal, touts transgender qualifications

If confirmed, Dr. Levine will hold the second-highest position at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is overseeing the nation’s coronavirus response. The Biden administration likes to tout she would be the first openly transgender woman to be confirmed by the U.S. Moreover, reports from the state indicate that there’s been official undercounting of nursing home deaths — exactly the same crime New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been accused of. Pennsylvania health official moved mother from nursing home as deaths skyrocketed. Dr. Rachel Leland Levine , is the emotionally disturbed assistant secretary of health in the Biden regime.