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A Christian organization has been suspended from Twitter for stating the biological sex of a Biden appointee as a HHS official.

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday that would provide emergency scholarships for students affected by school closures.

More than 40 national pro-life leaders are calling upon the U.S. Senate to vote “no” on Joe Biden’s choice of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary.

The Trump administration announced its enforcement of federal conscience protection laws with regard to the funding of, and participation in, abortions.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Wednesday vowed to work smoothly and professionally with the Joe Biden transition team as the nation continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

The Associated Press wondered openly on Tuesday whether California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is actually up to the job for which Joe Biden has nominated him — namely, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

President Donald Trump has lowered drug prices and issued several executive orders on lowering Medicare drug prices, though critics say more action is needed.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reacted to the Centers for Disease Control’s reversal of changes to its guidance on the spread of coronavirus through the air by stating that the CDC “has been

CDC Director Robert Redfield said face masks are better at protecting against the coronavirus disease than a potential vaccine. 

Top health officials denied on Wednesday that political appointees are meddling with CDC’s weekly scientific reports on coronavirus.

A federal judge blocked HHS from enacting a rule designed to define sex based on biology and to protect relgious conscience.

On his last day in Taiwan, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar visited the shrine of former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar told Breitbart News exclusively he views his trip to Taiwan as a message from the United States to the world that Taiwan is and has been a “very important partner” with the U.S. when it comes to global health security.

“I’m therefore proud to announce that this morning the Moderna has officially entered phase three already,” Trump said, noting that it was a final stage of vaccine development.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar said the the Trump administration will pay Pfizer $2 billion for 100 million vaccine doses to fight the coronavirus.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), angered by the Trump administration’s requirement that hospitals bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and report coronavirus data directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said that hospitals should tell the president to “GO TO HELL.”

The White House Coronavirus Task Force will now receive all data related to the virus directly from hospitals instead of through the CDC.

The Chinese coronavirus pandemic and the associated lockdowns disrupted pediatric outpatient visits and routine childhood vaccinations in the United States, leaving children and their communities vulnerable to potential outbreaks of preventable diseases such as measles, top health officials testified on Thursday.

The number of new Chinese coronavirus cases in the United States could reach 100,000 a day if the country fails to turn things around, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, predicted while testifying before a Senate panel on Tuesday.

States experiencing growing novel coronavirus outbreaks may need to pause or roll back their reopening stages without necessarily reimposing an “absolute shutdown,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, told a House panel on Tuesday.

Operation Warp Speed is aiming to deliver 300 million doses of a safe and effective vaccine for coronavirus by January 2021.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced that it dismissed or lost to resignations 54 of its scientists amid the ongoing Trump administration probe to weed out suspected Chinese spies from universities and laboratories across the United States.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), citing the latest science and data, rescinded its emergency use authorization (EUA) for chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drugs touted by President Donald Trump and some doctors to combat the Chinese coronavirus.

The Trump administration released its final rule Friday that reversed the Obama administration’s definition of sex discrimination by eliminating both “gender identity” and “termination of pregnancy,” or abortion.

President Donald Trump’s deputies have restored the biology-based definition of sexual discrimination in federal healthcare rules, ending the novel transgender definition which was inserted by President Barack Obama. 

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that his organization “worked day and night to coordinate the global response” to the coronavirus pandemic, “providing technical advice, catalysing political solidarity, mobilising resources, coordinating resources and much more.”

Trump will donate his salary for this financial quarter to Heath and Human Services. McEnany showed the press the check for $100,000 signed by Trump to HHS.

CVS Health announced it is giving back the $43 million it received in coronavirus relief funds from the government.

A Democrat-led House panel allowed a witness, federal vaccine specialist Dr. Rick Bright who claims to be a whistleblower, to bring a lawyer to counsel him during his testimony Thursday against U.S. President Donald Trump’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler asked four health experts that took part in a Senate hearing on Tuesday about their relationship with President Trump.

The United States government hit a historic milestone over the weekend under President Donald Trump by issuing more than five million coronavirus tests. 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has informed a company that used a taxpayer grant to provide U.S. tax dollars to the Wuhan lab in China–from which some authorities believe the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic emanated–that the Wuhan lab is formally being investigated by U.S. officials.

Dr. Rick Bright, the vaccine expert who claims he was ousted from his former position in the administration because of his opposition to the promotion of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus, was already going to lose his job months before, according to information released on Twitter by Politico reporter Dan Diamond.

Dr. Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protested Wednesday after being reassigned to the National Institutes of Health — in retaliation, he claims, for his reluctance to fast-track approval for hydroxycholorquine for treating coronavirus patients.

Republicans urged the White House to maintain regulations on use of aborted fetal tissue for vaccine research and on drug-induced abortions.

China’s Wuhan virus has spread to almost 40 migrant youths and children who are being sheltered by the Department of Health and Human Services, according to news services.