The he/she/it.
Self mutilated. Still has Y chromosome.
Posted on 03/18/2021 9:06:47 AM PDT by lightman
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.
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.
Levine, who oversaw the state health department during the first year of the pandemic, was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as assistant health secretary.
In a letter to Levine addressed Tuesday, four Republican House Ways and Means Committee members, including Rep. Mike Kelly of Butler and Rep. Lloyd Smucker of Lancaster, asked Levine to address several questions about why data for COVID-19 cases and deaths was — and continues to be — missing from public reports released weekly by the state health department.
The letter cites Spotlight PA reporting from September 2020 showing that the reports were consistently missing data for more than 100 of the state’s 693 nursing homes, at times obscuring deadly outbreaks and making it difficult for families and resident advocates to monitor COVID-19 hotspots.
Levine was first asked about the missing data by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine) during a February confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, or HELP.
Collins said Levine had assured her that Pennsylvania had not, like New York, undercounted nursing home deaths. But, also citing the Spotlight PA report, Collins questioned why so much data still appeared to be missing.
Levine pointed to lags in the state’s electronic death reporting system, or EDRS, to explain why case and death data appeared to be incomplete.
In their letter Tuesday, House Republicans asked Levine to clarify why her response contradicted Spotlight PA’s findings, which pointed to problems with different reporting systems and procedures.
As of March 10, the most recent report available on the state health department website, case and death data was missing for 138 facilities. The previous week, data was missing for 133 facilities, according to a March 4 report.
The Senate HELP committee — including Collins — voted Wednesday to advance Levine’s confirmation to a vote before the full Senate.
In a separate letter Tuesday, Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pennsylvania) and members of the state’s House delegation called on Pennsylvania Department of Health Acting Secretary Alison Beam to provide more details about how the department will improve protections for nursing home residents in the future.
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That letter cites Spotlight PA reports from early in the pandemic about why the state did not act faster to implement strike teams to tackle nursing home outbreaks, and how the pandemic exacerbated long-standing problems with state oversight of facilities.
It asks Beam, who was selected by Gov. Tom Wolf to replace Levine in late January, to answer questions about how the state inspected nursing homes throughout the pandemic and how the department helped facilities manage infection control problems.
The letter also asks Beam to explain how the department will improve facility inspection procedures, how it will support ongoing vaccination efforts in nursing homes, and how it will ensure an adequate supply of personal protective equipment moving forward.
The he/she/it.
Self mutilated. Still has Y chromosome.
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Just to be thorough, the investigation should be to see how many died during the period in question and from what.
Undercounting...overcounting...
Who in Hades knows.
Check every death and every death certificate.
“Her?” Nonsense. Once a man, always a man.
I will not be complicit in the usurpation of the language.
Pronouns are W/T/F
He. Just he.
This call for an antidote.
Another sicko joins the kakistocracy of ChiComJoe Xiden.
“ Still has Y chromosome. ”
And no Barr bodies.
Any pubbies who vote to confirm this mental case need to be primaried.
Richardless Levine can’t claim that he didn’t know the nursing homes were dangerous because he moved his mother out of one despite denying others the ability to.
Not a Barr body in the joint.
Cuomo in NYS allowed positive staff to continue to report to work for almost three months until he rescinded the policy.
Wonder if this was done in PA, too...
Any Republican that votes to confirm this freak is a traitor who needs to be primaried.
GMTA!
J’en ai marre with this Freak!
“IT” doesn’t have to answer for anything......that cow/bull is a sacred cow/bull.....just like blacks throw down the race card for nothing, Levine will claim discrimination against “its”.........moan
Biden should sent hesheit to ChInA to help
with “improving” their children.
His ideas of enforced hormone changes, while
not telling parents, would help them so much.
Levine’s nom makes sense; it’s of a man pretending to be a woman nominated by a void pretending to be president.
Oh, just leave the poor girl alone.
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