If confirmed, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure will play a starring role in addressing President Joe Biden's healthcare priorities, including coverage expansion and affordability and health equity.
Obama admin alum Chiquita Brooks-LaSure picked to head CMS healthcaredive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from healthcaredive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Biden boosting vaccine allotments, financing for virus costs lmtonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lmtonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Feb 3, 2021
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
In this file photo, Pharmacist Evelyn Kim wears a mask and gloves at the CVS pharmacy at Target in the Tenleytown area of Washington.
WASHINGTON (AP) President Joe Biden’s administration announced Tuesday that it is moving to expand access to COVID-19 vaccines, freeing up more doses for states and beginning to distribute them to retail pharmacies next week. The push comes amid new urgency to speed vaccinations to prevent the spread of potentially more serious strains of the virus that has killed more than 445,000 Americans.
Starting next week, 1 million doses will be distributed to some 6,500 pharmacies across the country, the White House said. The administration is also boosting by 500,000 the weekly allocation of vaccines sent directly to states and territories for the coming weeks, up to 10.5 million. It is allowing state and local governments to receive additional federal dollars to cover previously incurred expenses relating to the pa