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close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for February 25 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Former Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine faced tough questioning Thursday during a Senate confirmation hearing regarding reported discrepancies in state records on COVID-related nursing home deaths. Levine was nominated by President Biden to serve as assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services. "You assured me that Pennsylvania did not do what New York did, that it accurately reported," Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said to Levine Thursday. "However, I am told that in September of 2020, Spotlight PA reported issues with inadequate disclosure of cases and deaths in nursing homes," she continued, pointing to facilities that were found to have reported "no data" while the facilities claimed they had. BIDEN PICKS TRANSGENDER WOMAN AS ASSISTANT HEALTH SECRETARY … [Read more...] about Rachel Levine, HHS assistant secretary nominee, quizzed on missing Pa. nursing home data

close Video Daughters of NY nursing home victim demand Gov. Andrew Cuomo be held accountable Vivian Rivera Zayas and Alexa Rivera urge New York Democrats to 'step up and do the right thing' on 'Fox & Friends' EXCLUSIVE - Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., demanded that the Department of Health and Human Services investigate New York nursing home deaths, citing the state attorney general's report that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration may have undercounted nursing home coronavirus deaths by as much as 50%. Lamborn sent a letter to HHS acting secretary Norris Cochran on Thursday asking for an investigation into nursing home deaths under Cuomo for "a full and public accounting of his administration's actions." CUOMO ADMITTED HE WOULDN'T PUT HIS MOTHER IN NURSING HOME THE SAME MONTH HE ISSUED COVID ORDER "Throughout the pandemic, long term care facilities were ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic," Lamborn told Fox News. "This tragedy … [Read more...] about HHS must investigate alleged Cuomo nursing home deaths cover-up, House Republican urges

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania on Thursday used a hearing to ask Gov. Tom Wolf’s top health official whether it was a mistake to order COVID-19 patients to be readmitted to nursing homes, although it is far from clear that the policy led to an outbreak or death. Since Pennsylvania’s first coronavirus spike in cases last spring, Republicans have accused Wolf’s administration of fueling the outbreak in nursing homes by ordering the facilities to readmit residents who had been treated for the virus in a hospital. READ MORE: COVID-19 Vaccinations In Pittsburgh: Allegheny County Health Department To Begin Using Pfizer Vaccine Despite a high number of nursing home deaths in Pennsylvania, no investigation has thus far pointed to the policy as a cause of death or outbreak. Meanwhile, nursing home trade associations in Pennsylvania say they are not aware of a nursing home that was forced to accept a COVID-positive patient against its will, or that the order … [Read more...] about COVID-19 In Pennsylvania: Nursing Home Deaths Fueling Blame

Presented by The AIDS Institute Welcome to The Hill’s Morning Report. Today is Friday and the last one in February! We get you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch. Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver are the co-creators. Readers can find us on Twitter @asimendinger and @alweaver22. Please recommend the Morning Report to friends and let us know what you think. CLICK HERE to subscribe! Total U.S. coronavirus deaths each morning this week: Monday, 498,901; Tuesday, 500,310; Wednesday, 502,660; Thursday, 505,890; Friday, 508,307. House Democrats today are expected to pass legislation that would spend nearly $2 trillion to tackle the coronavirus crisis with direct payments to Americans and money for schools to reopen, small business loans and extended unemployment benefits for some of the 10 million people who are struggling without paychecks. Passage will give President Biden Joe Biden … [Read more...] about The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by The AIDS Institute – Senate ref axes $15 minimum wage, House votes today on relief bill

LOS ANGELES (AP/CBS13) — California has reached a grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic. Los Angeles County on Wednesday reported another 806 deaths from coronavirus during the winter surge, pushing California’s toll above 50,000, or about one-tenth of the U.S. total from the pandemic. READ MORE: Young Girl Saves Mom From Burning Home: 'I Was Really Scared' The county, which has a quarter of the state’s 40 million residents, said the deaths mainly occurred between Dec. 3 and Feb. 3. The Department of Public Health identified them after going through death records that were backlogged by the sheer volume of the surge’s toll. “It is heartbreaking to report on this large number of additional deaths associated with COVID-19 and a devastating reminder of the terrible toll the winter surge has taken on so many families across the county,” Barbara Ferrer, Los Angeles County’s health director, said in a statement. Johns Hopkins University put California’s overall COVID-19 … [Read more...] about Backlogged Cases Push California’s Total COVID-19 Deaths Past 50,000