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But many states — even in virus hot spots — are dragging their feet. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has yet to respond to an April appeal to set ground rules for triaging patients, in case hospitalization rates outpace the supply…

DeWine then headed to meet Trump at the airport to greet him. “I was fully expecting to see the president that morning,” DeWine said in a press conference Friday. “But as we were driving to the airport to meet him,…

Recent surge in infections and Trump policies prompt a serious reassessment by forecasters, who now see no end in sight for coronavirus crisis.

More voters said they’d get vaccinated on the advice of presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (20 percent) or former President Barack Obama (24 percent) than Trump. That is in line with another recent POLITICO/Morning Consult survey that found 44…

Pressed about his lack of a replacement for Obamacare, Trump also has spent days promising to unveil a health plan of his own, though he declined to detail exactly what that plan would do. Trump on Fox News last month…

Using Medicare data to pinpoint ICU beds, the authors found 49 percent of all low-income areas didn’t have any ICU beds, compared to just 3 percent of the wealthiest communities. While this gap existed across rural and urban settings, it…

Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Trump won’t offer an Obamacare replacement before a Supreme Court ruling on the law, which is unlikely before the election. Republican lawmakers, who spent the first year of Trump’s presidency trying…

A researcher works at an industrial development laboratory at the French drugmaker’s vaccine unit Sanofi Pasteur plant in Marcy-l’Etoile, near Lyon, central France, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. | Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool via AP Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline will receive up to $2.1…

HHS officials said that Slaoui had agreed to be reimbursed for housing and hotel expenses that amount to about $17,000 between May and Aug. 22, 2020, and that the contract — which was awarded to a firm called Advanced Decision…

Still, the episode fit a pattern of Verma charging contractors with directing tasks that ranged from the high-profile to the mundane, from writing major speeches and organizing events to managing media requests and approving tweets. For example, Verma recommended that…