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What Is The CDC Hiding? Agency Admits Withholding Widespread Vaccine Efficacy Data The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been collecting detailed information on Covid hospitalizations for more than a year which breaks cases down by age, race and vaccination status - yet the agency has withheld most of it from the public according to the New York Times . Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention What''s more, the agency appears to have selectively published information to support messaging behind boosters. When the C.D.C. published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65 two weeks ago, it left out the numbers for a huge portion of that population: 18- to 49-year-olds , the group least likely to benefit from extra shots, because the first two doses already left them well-protected. -NYT As the Times notes, much of the withheld information could aid in state and local health decisions in their efforts to bring the virus under control.

Texas Sues Biden Admin Over Federal Mask Mandate On Planes, Public Transport Authored by Mimi Nguyen Ly via The Epoch Times, Texas on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its federal mask mandate on public transport , including on airplanes and airports. The suit is filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), and U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas). It names as defendants CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, CDC chief of staff Sherri Berger, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, as well as the federal government as a whole. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Jan. 20, 2021—his first day in office—to order federal agencies to mandate masks on planes, trains, and in airports. The mandate was later issued by Berger on Jan. 29, 2021 , requiring people to wear masks on “transportation conveyances or on the premises of transportation hubs,” and the mandate became effective on Feb. 3, 2021.

Moderna has applied for patents in South Africa relating to its Covid-19 vaccine, prompting fears the company could seek to prevent an African vaccine hub from making its own version.

Several lawmakers asked federal authorities to explore whether criminal charges should be brought against members of the Sackler family.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn had demanded response from HHS secretary about drug-abuse program.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been awarded a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to fund COVID-19 outreach efforts… The post UAMS receives $10 million federal grant for COVID-19 outreach appeared first on Talk Business & Politics .

The White House and its allies in the mainstream media and Big Tech are disputing a report that a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant program would fund distribution of crack pipes through safe "smoking kits" to help advance racial equity.

The Mystery Of The Migrant Kids The Feds Are Spiriting Into The U.S. Interior Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations (emphasis ours), After months of delay, the Department of Homeland Security replied late last month to a Congressional demand for information about the number of illegal migrants the department has flown from border towns to communities around the country. In 2021, it said, 71,617 were dropped off in nearly 20 cities including locales as far from the Mexican border as Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia. Immigration experts critical of the Biden administration’s permissive immigration policies believe those numbers are incomplete, especially regarding the most vulnerable migrants, those under 18, whom DHS classifies as "unaccompanied children." The agency says some 40,000 of the total transported are such minors, but that number is only a fraction of the 147,000 "encounters" the agency reports having with unaccompanied migrant children at the southern border between January and October 2021.

GOP senators are calling on the Biden administration to publicize data on the effectiveness of natural immunity in preventing additional cases of COVID-19, arguing the White House is too concerned with mandates to recognize that millions of Americans have already built up natural antibodies from a prior infection.

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Wednesday that crack pipes will not be given to vulnerable communities.

WASHINGTON (AP) Following outrage on the political right, the Biden administration said Wednesday that a grant program to help prevent additional harm to people who use illicit drugs will not pay for safer pipes to smoke crack or meth. No federal funding will be used directly or through subsequent reimbursement of grantees to put pipes in safe smoking kits, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and White House drug policy adviser Rahul Gupta said in a statement. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said separately that was never the intention, complaining that impression was created by inaccurate reporting. Monday was the deadline for service organizations and state and local governments to apply for a share of $30 million in federal money for harm reduction efforts intended to prevent disease, injury and other collateral trauma to people addicted to illicit drugs. The original request for funding proposals from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration had listed safe smoking kits/supplies among the items that could be purchased with taxpayer money.

Biden Admin Funding Free Crack Pipes To Promote ''Racial Equity'' The Biden administration is finalizing funding to promote "racial equity" by handing out free glass crack pipes for drug addicts to smoke crack cocaine , crystal methamphetamine or any other "illicit substance." Comedian Dave Chappelle as fictional crackhead Tyrone Biggums The new $30 million grant program from the Health and Human Services (HHS) department will provide funds to local governments and nonprofits for "smoking kits/supplies," according to the Washington Free Beacon . HHS said the kits aim to reduce the risk of infection when smoking substances with glass pipes, which can lead to infections through cuts and sores. Applicants for the grants are prioritized if they treat a majority of "underserved communities," including African Americans and "LGBTQ+ persons," as established under President Joe Biden''s executive order on "advancing racial equity." Not everyone''s a fan. " If we look at more of a preventive campaign as opposed to an enabling campaign , I think it will offer an opportunity to have safer communities with fewer people who are dependable on these substances," Sgt.

16 States File New Challenge To Biden Admin''s Health Care Worker COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Louisiana and 15 other states on Feb. 4 lodged a new legal challenge against the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, arguing that the dominance of the Omicron virus variant undercuts the justification for the mandate. Approximately 10.4 million workers fall under the vaccination requirements, which apply to every facility that receives Medicare or Medicaid funding. The Supreme Court lifted injunctions against the mandate on Jan. 13 , finding in a 5–4 decision that the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had the authority to issue the rule requiring vaccination. The mandate took effect in 25 states in January and will take effect this month in the other 25 states, which had challenged the rule. The rule, signed by Health Secretary Xavier Becerra, repeatedly references the danger the Delta virus variant poses to the unvaccinated, and says that vaccines “continue to be effective in preventing COVID-19 associated with the now-dominant Delta variant.” Becerra had “good cause” to impose the rule without accepting comments, mandated in most circumstances under federal law, because of his “belief that any ‘further delay’ would endanger patient health and safety given the spread of the Delta variant and the upcoming winter season,” the nation’s top court ruled.

Performant Financial Corp (NASDAQ: PFMT ) revealed the recent award of an IDIQ contract by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG). Full story available on Benzinga.com