Minutes after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Kennedy and his team to Make America Healthy Again.
The order created the MAHA Commission, and specifically instructed Kennedy to focus on addressing the root causes of America&#8217;s escalating health crisis, especially childhood chronic disease.
Kennedy did just that — and swiftly.
Here’s what the secretary has done so far to transform American food standards and reorient his agency’s health initiatives.
<h3>Food Changes </h3>
DYES: Kennedy announced in April that he’s phasing out a number of artificial food dyes and colorings by the end of 2026. Specifically, HHS is banning petroleum-based synthetic dyes, including Red 3 and 40, Blue 1 and  2, Yellow 5 and 6, and Green 3. Such dyes are common in cereals, candy, baked goods, soft drinks, and other junk foods commonly consumed by children.
HHS will also be partnering with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct comprehensive research on how these dyes impact children’s health and development.
INGREDIENT STANDARDS: Kennedy has directed the FDA to revise a rule that allows companies to “self-affirm” the safety of food ingredients. Under the revision, manufacturers will have to publicly submit safety data for new ingredients. HHS <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/revising-gras-pathway.html">says</a> such enhanced oversight will “bring transparency to American consumers.”
LIMITING SNAP: Several states are moving to limit food stamps, also known as SNAP benefits, to healthier options. The limits often exclude sugary drinks like soda, candy, and some other highly processed foods.
RFK has urged governors to submit waivers to the Department of Agriculture to effectuate such limits on SNAP. On April 16, Arkansas was the first state in the nation to submit such a request. States like West Virginia, Utah, Idaho, Tennessee, South Carolina, Missouri, and Indiana are exploring SNAP restrictions, too.
TRANSPARENCY TOOL: In March, the FDA unveiled a tool that allows people to look up chemical contaminants in foods from a large database. The tool, which can be <a href="https://www.hfpappexternal.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/index.cfm?set=contaminant-levels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accessed here</a>, includes tolerances, action levels, guidance levels, derived intervention levels, recommended maximum levels, and advisory levels of contaminants. Some of the contaminants included in the database are Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT, a synthetic pesticide; Chlordane, an organochlorine pesticide; and Aldrin and Dieldrin, which are both synthetic chemicals in the insecticide family.
<h3>Formula </h3>
OPERATION STORK SPEED: The FDA announced in March that it is tightening its standards on infant formula and reevaluating current products on the market. The move followed a Consumer Reports investigation, which found that about <a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/baby-formula/baby-formula-contaminants-test-results-a7140095293/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">half of the 41 formulas</a> it tested contained potentially harmful levels of arsenic, lead, BPA, acrylamide, or PFAS, <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/rfk-jr-baby-formula-operation-stork-speed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to News Nation.
The FDA, for example, will increase testing for heavy metals and other contaminants in infant formula and encourage companies to work with the FDA to increase transparency and clearer labeling
<h3>Fluoride Fight </h3>
This month, Utah became the first state in the nation to ban the addition of fluoride to public drinking water. Numerous other states are also considering bans, including Florida, where a bill proposing a statewide ban just passed the Senate.
The movement seems to have been sparked by Kennedy, who has routinely spoken out against fluoridation. Just before the election, he <a href="https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1852812012478398923">posted</a> on X that on day one of Donald Trump’s presidency, he would advise that all United States water systems remove fluoride. He’s also called fluoride an “industrial waste” and says it’s associated with numerous negative effects, like arthritis, IQ loss, and thyroid disease.
<h3>Autism </h3>
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS: There have been reports since March about the CDC studying potential links between vaccinations and the rise in autism. HHS never confirmed nor denied such reports, but said “no stone would go unturned” when researching autism causes. In April, RFK confirmed that he’s commissioning a series of studies on suspected links to high autism rates, including mold, pesticides, food chemicals, and, notably, medication.
NIH, which falls under HHS, is investing $50 million in research for causes and improving treatments for autism, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2025/04/25/hss-autism-registry-nih-data-platform/83269805007/">according</a> to USA Today.
DEADLINE ON CAUSES: RFK told Trump in April that HHS will know what is causing the autism epidemic by September. Kennedy also revealed new CDC data that found 1 in 31 children are diagnosed with the disorder, which is nearly 5 times higher than when the CDC started these surveys back in 1992, according to some estimates.
<h3>Cleaning House </h3>
Kennedy announced in March that he’s restructuring HHS and terminating tens of thousands of employees.
“What I found when I came to HHS, is really a sprawling bureaucracy. We have over 100 communications departments — we should have one. We have 40 IT departments, 40 procurement departments, dozens of HR departments,” Kennedy <a href="https://x.com/michaeljknowles/status/1905403551024554014" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Daily Wire host Michael Knowles</a>. “And that is where we’re doing the cuts. We’re going down from 82,000 personnel to 62,000.”
“We’re keeping the scientists, we’re keeping the front-line providers,” he added. “We&#8217;re trying to do our best, not only to serve as stewards of the taxpayer money, but also to make the agency more efficient.”
<h3>Realigning Funding and Research </h3>
VACCINES: The National Institutes of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/10/vaccines-nih-rfk-research-canceled/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health</a> (NIH) will stop spending money to find out why Americans are hesitant to take vaccines. NIH is terminating or scaling back more than 40 related grants and has said that such spending no longer aligns with NIH priorities.
AUTISM RESEARCH: As noted above, Kennedy has launched a $50 million initiative aimed at investigating the causes of autism and improving treatments.
FUNDING CHRONIC DISEASE: RFK is reallocating funds he’s cut from the NIH and CDC to address chronic disease.
<h3>What’s Next?</h3>
Kennedy is only starting on his mission to address the alarming rates of chronic disease, especially among children. But the secretary has also signaled that he’s eyeing the pharmaceutical industry next.
Kennedy has voiced concerns about how we overmedicate, especially young Americans. There have also been reports that RFK is aiming to curb or <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2025/04/04/rfk-jr-may-want-to-ban-prescription-drug-ads-but-can-he/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ban</a> prescription drug ads.

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MAHA In 100 Days: How Trump And RFK Are Transforming Food And Healthcare In America

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The Trump administration and DOGE are continuing their efforts to slash federal spending, with major cuts to the Health Department announced Thursday. Trump takes &#8220;presidential action&#8221; against the elite law firms that targeted him. And, voters in Maine overwhelmingly support keeping men out of women’s sports – but the state’s Democratic governor is still defying Trump’s order to do so.
It’s Friday, March 28th, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. If you’d rather listen to your news, today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:
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<h2>DOGE Cuts HHS</h2>
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Topline: The Trump administration and DOGE are continuing their efforts to slash federal spending, with major cuts to the Health Department announced Thursday.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Thursday morning that his department will cut more than 10,000 jobs – more than 20% of HHS’ workforce.
Among others, the Food and Drug Administration will let go of 3,500 employees, though Kennedy said the cuts would not impact inspectors looking at drugs, medical devices, and food. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will lose 1,200 workers, the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) 300, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2,400. The overhaul will also eliminate 13 of the department&#8217;s 28 existing divisions and create a new Administration for a Healthy America. According to Kennedy, the cuts will save taxpayer money and force health agencies to become more efficient.
“When I arrived I found that over half of our employees don’t even come to work,” Kennedy said. “As part of President Trump’s DOGE workforce reduction initiative, we’re gonna streamline HHS to make our agency more efficient and effective. … We’re gonna eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments and agencies while preserving their core functions.”
Context: America’s health care system ranks <a href="https://www.ajmc.com/view/us-health-care-system-ranks-last-overall-among-other-high-income-countries">last</a> in health among 38 developed nations, but spends 2 to 3x more per capita on each patient. HHS funding increased by nearly 40 percent under the Biden administration, as staffing went up almost 20 percent – this week’s cuts will reduce the number of employees to pre-pandemic levels.
These aren’t the only cuts being made to HHS. A day earlier, Kennedy moved to pull nearly <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-government-pulls-back-over-11-billion-funding-state-health-departments-2025-03-26/">$12 billion</a> in COVID funding that had been allocated to state health departments, NGOs, and an assortment of international groups. Those funds were being used for COVID testing, COVID vaccines, etc. According to a DHS spokesman, &#8220;The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago.” Instead, they say, “HHS is prioritizing funding projects that will deliver on President Trump’s mandate to address our chronic disease epidemic.”
According to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/chronic-disease/about/index.html">CDC</a>, 6 in 10 Americans suffer from a chronic disease, while 4 in 10 suffer from at least two.
<h2>Trump vs. Law Firms</h2>
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Topline: President Trump is taking action against top law firms that have ties to people who drove investigations and litigation against him.
On Monday, Trump signed an executive order targeting the law firm Jenner &amp; Block. The order is similar to a few others he’s signed in recent weeks – it blocks the firm from entering federal buildings and revokes its attorneys’ security clearances. It also bars federal agencies from contracting with the firm.
“I just think that the law firms have to behave themselves,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/atrupar/status/1904244385342214479">said</a>. “We have others that want to make a settlement also having to do with the elections and other things, they&#8217;ve behaved very badly &#8230; our elections are very dishonest. Very corrupt.”
A federal judge blocked one of these Trump orders earlier this month – that order targeted Perkins Coie, the Clinton-tied law firm at the center of the Russian collusion conspiracy in 2016. The judge in that case, Beryl Howell, was appointed by Barack Obama and called Trump’s order “unlawful” and a violation of the First Amendment.
The targeted firms all have deep ties to the Democratic Party and Trump’s top antagonists. In fact, Trump’s latest order singles out Andrew Weissmann. He was a partner at Jenner &amp; Block from 2021 to 2022 – but before that, he was the top deputy of special counsel Robert Mueller and is thought to have been a key player in propagating the “Russiagate” hoax.
These orders don’t appear to be final – Trump has suggested that he will negotiate with the law firms if they come to the table. When asked if his actions amounted to “coercion” by a reporter, Trump responded, “The law firms all wanna make deals. You mean the law firms that we&#8217;re going after that went after me for 4 years ruthlessly, violently, illegally? I mean, are those the law firms you&#8217;re talking about? They&#8217;re not babies. They&#8217;re very sophisticated people.”
One prominent firm in the hot seat – Paul Weiss – has agreed to make several commitments to avoid sanctions, including $40 million worth of pro bono work for causes the White House supports.
<h2>Maine Defies Title IX</h2>
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Topline: Public universities in Maine are backing down from their transgender policies, but Governor Janet Mills (D) is still refusing to comply with Trump’s order on girls’ sports.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-spars-with-maines-dem-governor-over-men-in-womens-sports-at-white-house">public spat</a> between President Trump and Governor Mills over an executive order barring men from women’s sports has gone on for more than a month. Mills maintains that the EO does not carry the force of law and has stated flatly that she has no intention of complying with it.
“My issue is about the rule of law, pure and simple,” Mills said in a statement posted to <a href="https://x.com/TheMaineWire/status/1904334942999363625">X</a>. “[The Constitution] doesn’t allow [the president] him to make laws out of whole cloth by tweet or instagram post or press release or executive order.”
Congressional Republicans have been slow to codify Trump’s order on girls&#8217; sports. However, Title IX separates sports based on sex to ensure equal opportunity. Only during the Biden administration did the federal government decide to interpret Title IX through the lens of so-called gender identity. Eight public universities in Maine have already said they will comply with Trump&#8217;s order in response to the Department of Agriculture threatening to withhold federal funding over the issue.
Other departments have also opened investigations into Maine’s transgender policies. For example, Health and Human Services said it found Title IX violations and gave the state <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-gives-maine-10-days-to-comply-with-wh-block-males-from-female-sports">ten days</a> to comply with Trump’s order – that letter was sent on March 19.
“The letter stipulated that if there is no voluntary compliance on the part of Maine, it&#8217;s going to be referred to the Justice Department for prosecution,” Steve Robinson, editor-in-chief of The Maine Wire (no relation) told Morning Wire. “I think there&#8217;s a lot of ego and stubbornness here. They&#8217;re not used to being told that they&#8217;re wrong or that they don&#8217;t have the authority to do something.”
New polling from the American Parents Coalition – which was exclusively shared with The Daily Wire – shows that Maine residents side with Trump on this issue &#8212; 63% said school sports participation should be based on biological sex. 60% said they’d support a ballot measure to protect girls’ sports, including 64% of independents.

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With Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm, President Donald Trump&#8217;s ambitious “Make America Healthy Again Commission&#8221; is already impacting the food industry.
The “MAHA Commission,&#8221; established in an executive order, asks for a strategy to “Make Our Children Healthy Again” in about six months from now &#8212; but changes from the private sector already seem to be in motion.
<a href="https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/27722-maha-commission-may-shine-public-health-spotlight-on-food-industry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to Robert Moskow, a food industry analyst for investment bank TD Cowen, food and beverage brands will proactively start to remove artificial flavors and preservatives that they believe won’t pass new standards. 
Some big-name restaurants have already publicized their health swaps. For example, the food chain Steak &#8216;n Shake famously announced last month that it would start cooking its fries in beef tallow. RFK has promoted beef tallow over vegetable and seed oils. Sweetgreen and Blue Collar Restaurant Group have also replaced seed oils. There was also RFK signaling to McDonald&#8217;s, the largest fast food chain on the globe; he said after his swearing-in that the corporation should be “incentivized&#8221; to use beef tallow. 
Americans will also likely see changes at Mondelēz International, one of the largest snack companies in the world, which owns brands like Oreo, Ritz, Chips Ahoy!, Clif Bar, Cadbury, and others. 
Mondelēz CEO Dirk van de Put <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/mondelez-ceo-says-kennedy-agenda-product-re-formulations-will-mean-price-hikes-2025-02-18/">said</a> on Tuesday at a conference that due to pressure from RFK, the company would likely swap out some ingredients and food dyes it currently uses in favor of its European recipes. Europe has stricter standards for its food. 
Van de Put added that consumers would see price hikes over the changes. 
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Though companies seem willing to make adjustments to items like dyes and preservatives, Moskow said there would be strong push-back over seed oils since they are so inexpensive and versatile. Constituents of the agribusiness industry will likely present studies at upcoming hearings to make the case that the oils are safe, the food analyst said. 
Kennedy has also signaled incoming changes for SNAP, which are government-funded food benefits, and the federally-subsidized school lunch program. Those changes could impact the food industry based on the scope of those programs. In fiscal year 2023, the government spent more than $112 billion on SNAP, and about $17 billion on the National School Lunch Program. 
Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said last week that she would work with RFK to reform SNAP. 
“I look forward to working with Bobby Kennedy as we figure out, do we have the healthiest choices &#8212; so when a taxpayer is putting money into SNAP, are they okay with us using their tax dollars to feed really bad food and sugary drinks to children who perhaps need something more nutritious,&#8221; Rollings told the press. 
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USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins welcomed RFK Jr.’s help to reform SNAP to cut “bad food and sugary drinks.”
“When a taxpayer is putting money into SNAP, are they okay with us using their tax dollars to feed really bad food and sugary drinks to children who need something more… <a href="https://t.co/5Vh0aMHIzG">pic.twitter.com/5Vh0aMHIzG</a>
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“We shouldn&#8217;t be giving 60% of the kids in schools processed foods that are making them sick,&#8221; RFK <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URQ2MxVbPBc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during his confirmation hearing. 
Speaking to his HHS staff earlier this week, RFK addressed the department&#8217;s ambitious agenda and underscored the challenges Americans are currently facing.
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“In the U.S., six out of every ten adults have at least one chronic disease, and four in ten have two or more,&#8221; Kennedy said. &#8220;The U.S. has the highest age-standardized cancer incidence rate among 204 countries in the world.&#8221;
&#8220;Asthma and autoimmune diseases are far more common in the U.S. than in any other part of the world,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Autism now affects one in every 36 kids, a more than four-fold increase over past decades. The sperm counts and testosterone are down about 50% in American boys, and our girls are reaching puberty six years earlier than historical generations.” 
RFK stressed during his address that his goal is to earn back the public’s trust and accomplish that through transparency. Trust in institutions and scientists has significantly <a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/trend/archive/fall-2024/americans-deepening-mistrust-of-institutions">dropped</a> since COVID. 
“I want the agencies under HHS to earn that back, that level of global trust,&#8221; Kennedy said. &#8220;And what is the path to public trust? The path to trust is always through transparency. Transparency is the foundation of science, and it is the foundation of democracy.”

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How The ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Commission Is Already Impacting The Food Industry 

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On Wednesday during the hearings for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Democrats made fools of themselves, with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) taking the lead.
What helped RFK Jr. in this hearing was that whatever mistakes he made were quickly covered up by Democrats who were out of their freaking minds. They are out of their minds. They&#8217;re crazy.
It’s not our fault, on the Right, that leftists decided to tout Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as your champions of diversity, inclusion, and economic issues.
That’s your fault. You decided to make these people your leading lights. We didn&#8217;t. You “chose the form of your destructor” — and it turns out it was a bunch of geriatric socialists with no relationship with the real world.
The funniest moment, by far, came when Bernie Sanders started questioning RFK Jr. about a onesie for a baby that read “Unvaxxed. Unafraid.”
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Sanders foamed, “They are selling what’s called onesies. These are little things, clothing for babies.” His eyes became like saucers as he yelled, “Are you supportive of this?”
RFK Jr. replied, “I’ve had nothing to do with leadership —”
“Are you supportive of these onesies?” Sanders yelled again.
“I’m supportive of vaccines,” RFK Jr. said simply.
“Are you supportive of these, this clothing which is militantly anti-vaccine?” Sanders screamed.
Kennedy, trying to suppress a laugh, said, “I am supportive of vaccines. I want good science; I want to protect —”
“But you will not tell the organization you founded not to continue selling that product. Thank you, Mr. Chairman,” Sanders concluded.
Bernie’s new 2028 slogan: “Will you denounce the onesies?”
Do you think you&#8217;re going to get RFK Jr. on, “Will you denounce the onesies?”
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That was not the end of Bernie&#8217;s insanity. He then asked RFK Jr. if healthcare is a right and RFK Jr. gave the correct answer, which was “not the way you mean it.”
“Is health care a human right?” Sanders asked.
RFK Jr. asked if Sanders meant a right in the way that free speech is a human right. Sanders said, “Yes,” whereupon RFK Jr. said, “I would say it&#8217;s different. &#8230; Free speech doesn&#8217;t cost anything. But in health care, if you smoke cigarettes for 20 years and you get cancer, you are now taking from the pool. So are you guaranteed the same right?”
That is the correct answer. When someone asks, &#8220;Is X a right,” you have to ask, “What do you mean by that?”
There are many different types of “rights.” What Bernie means is, “Do you think it&#8217;s a good thing that everybody should have?” And the answer to that is, “Sure, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s a right.”
If you&#8217;re demanding a service from somebody, it&#8217;s no longer a right. I don’t have a right to food. I have a right to have the capacity to obtain food in a free system. I don&#8217;t have a right to food because that means that somebody else would have to provide me with that food.
I do have a right to free speech because I do have the capacity to demand from you that you don’t impede my ability to speak freely.
It wasn’t just Bernie. Elizabeth Warren — who is a sort of a knockoff Temu Bernie —  was yelling at RFK Jr. and basically mimicking the “lady screaming at cat” meme.
If this is who Democrats want to be, please, more of this.
You’re turning Republicans into the cool kids.
Keep on going.

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An Ohio-based medical provider has been accused of engaging in illegal discrimination with several race-based programs, according to a federal civil rights <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/HHS-OCR-Complaint-Cleveland-Clinic-Race-Discrimination-8-2024-final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaint</a> filed Wednesday. 
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) filed the complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over two initiatives from the Cleveland Health Clinic focused on providing medical care solely to “racial and ethnic minorities.” The complaint was filed on behalf of the group, Do No Harm, an organization dedicated to depoliticizing medicine.
The initiatives in question are the “Minority Stroke Program” and the “Minority Men’s Health Center.” The complaint says that both programs &#8220;have discriminated, and are currently discriminating, against certain members of Do No Harm,&#8221; which WILL says violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the Affordable Care Act.
“Race discrimination is a defining feature of these programs; and this discrimination is present and ongoing,” a copy of the complaint shared with The Daily Wire says. “Everyday people in search of help — regarding stroke and other cardiovascular conditions, men’s health conditions, and mental health issues, and encountering Cleveland Clinic’s racial preferences for its special programming — are faced with the fact that the clinic does not view, prioritize, promote, or otherwise care for all patients equally, in the same manner, without regard to race.”
The Cleveland Clinic has over 48,000 employees across 14 affiliated hospitals and 20 family centers in northeast Ohio. It also has several affiliated hospitals in Florida and a cancer center in Nevada. The Clinic did not respond to a request for comment.
The complaint was filed as part of WILL’s “Equality Under the Law” project, which challenges diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs across the country.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, the <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/neurological/depts/cerebrovascular/minority-stroke-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">minority stroke program</a> is “focused on preventing and treating stroke in racial and ethnic minorities” and increasing &#8220;stroke awareness among minority groups in order to lower stroke rates and improve stroke outcomes.”
The minority stroke program was launched in 2019 and has expanded to specifically target parts of Cleveland “where 90% of residents are Black,” <a href="https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/closing-racial-gaps-in-cerebrovascular-mortality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Clinic. 
The Minority Men’s Health Center is <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/urology-kidney/depts/minority-mens-health-center#overview-tab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">focused </a>on “minority health concerns,&#8221; and <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/urology-kidney/depts/minority-mens-health-center#what-we-treat-tab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> it helps doctors “more effectively address health disparities in minority populations.”
The complaint says that the racially focused aspect of the programs takes away from the focus of medical care. 
“Instead, a racially motivated focus has infected these programs — creating a racial dichotomy under which patients are prioritized and cared for, and displacing the otherwise laudable goal of helping humanity equally, without regard to one’s race,” the complaint says. 
In a letter to officials at the Cleveland Clinic notifying them of the complaint, lawyers with WILL said that they would withdraw the complaint if the clinic opens up its programs.
“Should you determine to revise these programs to remove their racial motivation and focus in favor of an approach that equally prioritizes, promotes, pursues, and includes all patients, without regard to race in compliance with federal anti-discrimination laws, DNH will immediately withdraw its complaint,” wrote lawyers Cara Tolliver and Daniel Lennington.
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the chairman of Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire that the initiatives would lead to a lack of trust by patients for the system. 
“This is just wrong. I think it&#8217;s important that they have outreach,” he said. “But to start separating people based on race and having them go to one clinic if they’re black and another clinic if they’re white is not a good idea.”
He added that these kinds of initiatives were being introduced for executives to virtue signal and coming down from DEI offices.
Goldfarb said that he expects the complaint to be successful, citing a recent settlement the group reached with the Association of University Women, in which the university agreed to stop excluding white women from being eligible for certain awards. 
“We’re going to fight with them,&#8221; Goldfarb told The Daily Wire. &#8220;We’ll go right to the highest courts in the land if we have to because these programs are wrong.&#8221;

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-grassley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Grassley</a> (R-IA) announced an investigation this week into reports that unaccompanied illegal immigrant children found at the southern border were being placed by HHS with people in the United States linked to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ms-13-gang" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MS-13</a>.
Grassely <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-scrutinizes-hhss-improper-care-of-unaccompanied-migrant-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that he was “conducting a sweeping review” of how HHS and its contractors find homes in the United States for illegal immigrant children who are found at the border without a parent or guardian. The Iowa Republican said he had sent letters to nine contractors to determine more about their vetting and placement process.
“My office has been informed through legally-protected whistleblower disclosures, including contractor records, showing children were sponsored without proper vetting or care, and at addresses that may be part of possible child-smuggling or trafficking rings,” Grassley <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/grassley_to_deloitte_consulting_llc_-_orr_contractors_and_grantees.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in the letters.  
“Shockingly, children were even placed by HHS and one of its contractors after they were notified of likely MS-13 gang affiliation in the household, and records related to this placement appear to have been deleted, a possible attempt to cover up actions taken by the contractor and HHS,” he added. 
The contractors who Grassley reached out to were Deloitte Consulting LLP, Center for Family Services, General Information Dynamics Technology, Alba Care Services, Holy Family Institute, Global Refuge, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Morrison Child and Family Services, and Sunny Glen Children’s Home. 
Grassley told the providers to provide him with specifics on how sponsors for the children are verified, records on where and how the children were transported, and how the organization tracked outcomes.
The letters also referenced “an apparent obstructive instruction” from HHS when it sent a letter on February 28 telling providers to direct questions about their work to the government agency. 
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“I personally brought up HHS’ obstructive conduct directly with HHS Secretary Becerra on March 14 in a Senate Finance Committee hearing,” Grassley said. “At the hearing, Secretary Becerra affirmed that contractors have the right to respond to this congressional inquiry. Furthermore, Congress has the constitutional authority, and the duty to conduct robust oversight on government agencies and contractors who receive taxpayer money for their work.”
An inspector general <a href="https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/OEI-07-21-00250.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> released in February found that many children were released to sponsors who had not had their fingerprints checked or been run through state child abuse registries. The report also said that over a third of the time, HHS and its contractors did not ensure documents provided by the sponsor could even be read. 
Illegal immigration has remained high under President Joe Biden with record highs of unaccompanied children being found at the border.

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A new study shows a significant amount of overlap between government and pharmaceutical jobs, leaving the government “vulnerable” to industry bias. 
The study, published in Health Affairs, <a href="https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/article/study-of-revolving-door-in-washington-shows-one-third-of-hhs-appointees-leave-for-industry-jobs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed that</a> over half of appointees to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cdc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> and the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services left their government jobs to work in the pharmaceutical industry, which generally pays more. The study was conducted by the University of Southern California Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and Harvard University.
&#8220;Although there are understandable reasons for people to move between the public and private sectors, the study notes that such a revolving door could make government agencies more vulnerable to pro-industry bias,&#8221; the USC Schaeffer Center <a href="https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/article/study-of-revolving-door-in-washington-shows-one-third-of-hhs-appointees-leave-for-industry-jobs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> of the project.
Overall, the study found that nearly a third of those appointed to the Department of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/health-and-human-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health and Human Services</a> went straight from government work into pharmaceutical industry work. The authors, Genevieve Kanter of USC and Daniel Carpenter of Harvard, evaluated 766 HHS appointees.
“Of people appointed to the Department of Health and Human Services between 2004 and 2020, 15 percent had been employed in private industry immediately before their appointment. At the end of their tenure, 32 percent exited to industry,” an abstract of the study <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.00418" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a>. 
They found no significant difference between party appointees leaving from government into the the pharmaceutical industry. 
The revolving doors can lead to conflict because of the key roll that federal agencies play in approving new drugs and treatments. 
&#8220;Laws passed by Congress get a lot of attention, but a lot of the real action actually happens at the regulatory level,&#8221; Kanter said. &#8220;Regulatory agencies can decide the fortunes of many companies.&#8221;
Kanter added that current law likely did not complete shield the government from bias, with only limited measures in place to prevent overlap. 
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&#8220;They do not broadly cover a lot of lobbying related to agency decision making – like regulations and drug authorizations – so they don’t necessarily deter that behavior,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The direction one might go is to expand the cooling off laws. But that’s a blunt instrument for a lot of subtle things that might be going on in terms of the effects of the revolving door.&#8221;
“What I am really concerned about is whether the personnel flow might lead to biases in government decision making,” she added.

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Senators J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, blasting the Biden administration’s plan to allow illegal immigrants access to government-provided healthcare.
The two were joined in the letter by several other Republican Congressmen and blasted the Biden administration’s plan to expand Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Obamacare market access to illegal immigrants enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
The <a href="https://www.vance.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/DACA-Healthcare-Letter-Final.pdf">letter</a> comes months after President Biden <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-daca-affordable-care-act-obamacare-health-5e8777aea489484c90dbcf184cad6310?utm_source=homepage&amp;utm_medium=TopNews&amp;utm_campaign=position_01">announced</a> that illegal immigrants who are enrolled in DACA would be able to access the government-funded programs.
“By providing health insurance to DACA recipients, this policy further burdens programs intended to serve U.S. citizens and simultaneously encourages more aliens to enter our country illegally in the hopes of receiving similar protection and services,” the letter from the Republican lawmakers reads. 
Another portion states “Given that more than 25 million Americans are uninsured, we find it unimaginable that the government would prioritize providing illegal aliens with health insurance coverage.”
As of 2020, it was <a href="https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-daca-recipients-are-there-united-states/">projected</a> that there were over 643,000 DACA recipients living in the United States.
The letter goes on to condemn the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis, asserting “This approach appears to align with the open-borders agenda advanced by your colleague, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, with hundreds of thousands of aliens apprehended trying to enter our country illegally every month.”
It was also signed by 14 Congressional Republicans: Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-OK), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Bob Good (R-VA), Matt Rosendale (R-MT), Eli Crane (R-AZ), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Ken Buck (R-CO), Brian Babin (R-TX), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Tom Tiffany (R-WI), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), and Tom McClintock (R-CA).
The letter points out that President Obama <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/13/flashback-obama-promised-obamacare-would-not-apply-to-illegal-aliens/">promised</a> that Obamacare wouldn’t offer healthcare coverage to illegal immigrants, also noting that the DACA program was ruled <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/10/05/1127107147/an-appeals-court-rules-against-daca-but-the-program-continues-for-now">illegal</a> in October 2022 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, though it remains in use for those who were enrolled before the court’s decision.
Meanwhile, a <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/media/2023/06/CHSPreliminaryReportFINAL.pdf">recent report</a> from Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee found illegal immigrants are putting strain on the American medical system, leaving hospitals to deal with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigration-costs-hospitals-billions-in-unpaid-bills-house-gop-report-finds">billions of dollars</a> in unpaid medical bills.

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A Florida grand jury accused the Biden administration of &#8220;facilitating&#8221; the trafficking of child refugees  after a five-month investigation conducted at the request of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-desantis-super-pac-raises-massive-30-million-in-less-than-4-weeks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Governor Ron DeSantis</a>.
The panel issued a <a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-04/3rd%20Presentment%20of%2021st%20SWGJ.pdf">scathing report</a>, denounced the Biden administration and, in <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/tueflorida-grand-jury-accuses-feds-abetting-forced-migration-sale-foreign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">particular</a>, the Homeland Security Department and Department of Health and Human Service&#8217;s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). It disputed ORR&#8217;s claim that child refugees are being cared for and reunited with their families.
“In reality, ORR is facilitating the forced migration, sale, and abuse of foreign children, and some of our fellow Florida residents are (in some cases unwittingly) funding and incentivizing it for primarily economic reasons,&#8221; the report stated. “If any resident of Florida exposed U.S.-born children to this process, they would be justifiably arrested for child neglect or worse.”
Through the White House&#8217;s policies, the two federal agencies are effectively encouraging unaccompanied children from South and Central America to make the dangerous trip to the U.S. border, the grand jury found. Once at the border, many of the children are abandoned to unvetted adults, the report found.
&#8220;This process exposes children to horrifying health conditions, constant criminal threat, labor and sex trafficking, robbery, rape, and other experiences not done justice by mere words,&#8221; the report stated, adding that grand jurors were repulsed and horrified by testimony and video documenting the treatment of foreign children.
It was not immediately clear what witnesses testified before the grand jury. The report reveals that the grand jury issued subpoenas and requests for documents and information to Florida non-governmental organizations doing business with ORR but were stymied.
“We received, instead, a response from the organizations that they would be purposely ignoring some of those requests under orders from ORR, with whom they have a contractual relationship,” the report stated.
One NGO official reportedly told the panel their organization would rather operate an unlicensed an illegal child placement facility than risk losing ORR’s funding, the report asserts.
ORR actively discouraged its employees from questioning the process even internally, even firing some, according to the report.
“One was fired for reporting a case of suspected human trafficking (of over 100 UAC shipped off to a single house in Texas) to a government hotline because her ORR superiors refused to investigate the matter,&#8221; it said.
The report also slammed HHS, noting that at the beginning of the investigation, accusing the agency of blocking its requests for routine information.
“HHS slow-walked productions and eventually provided the information in unusable or difficult-to-use formats, causing unacceptable and obstructive delays,&#8221; the reported states. &#8220;HHS also redacted vital tracking numbers from the hard copy documents, meaning that staff were unable to link related SIRs [Significant Incident Reports] together, or to link SIRs to any other ORR response.”
DeSantis called for the grand jury investigation amid reports the ORR was flying in illegal immigrants detained at the border. The panel determined it was occurring on a massive scale, and largely in secret.
“We learned that the very clandestine nature of ORR’s process was what first attracted the attention of some in our state; during a six-month period in 2021, more than 70 [large commercial passenger jets] landed at the international airport in Jacksonville,&#8221; the report stated. &#8220;These flights arrived in the night time often after midnight, and landed not at the passenger terminal, but instead at an out-of-the-way commercial terminal used normally for shipping freight, away from police facilities and miles from the passenger terminal.&#8221;
Once in the Sunshine State, the passengers were whisked away on private buses to unknown locations.
&#8220;If an operation were ferrying terrorists or large quantities of narcotics, this is what it would look like,&#8221; the report said.

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Numerous Departments of Public Health across the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States</a> are opting to replace &#8220;mother&#8221; and &#8220;father&#8221; for &#8220;birth parent&#8221; and &#8220;non-birth parent,&#8221; respectively.
A trove of scanned documents from the The Connecticut Department of Public Health circulating on social media reveal their official childbirth forms have been altered to substitute mother with &#8220;birth parent&#8221; and father with &#8220;non-birth parent.&#8221;
The documents surfaced on Twitter Friday after a Connecticut father, whose wife is expecting to deliver their second child at home, shared them with a third party. The paperwork was noticeably different from the first time the couple did a home birth.
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1/ 🧵The Connecticut Department of Public Health has removed the words &quot;mother&quot; and &quot;father&quot; from all medical paperwork surrounding childbirth. Mothers are now the &quot;birth parent,&quot; and fathers the &quot;non-birth parent.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/GwEdt34DFP">pic.twitter.com/GwEdt34DFP</a>
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The &#8220;Registration of a Home Birth Parent’s Guide&#8221; contains instructions and forms for the “birth parent” and “non-birth parent” to obtain the child’s birth certificate, and a variety of data-collecting forms requesting background information and medical data, affidavits, and immunization records from the &#8220;birth parent&#8221; and &#8220;non-birth parent.&#8221;
The “Birth Parent’s Worksheet for Child Birth Certificate (v2003),” revised in January 2022, is also found <a href="https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/Departments-and-Agencies/DPH/hisr/VR/BIRTH_PARENTS_WORKSHEET-REVISION-012022-v2.pdf">online</a>. A previous version from <a href="https://ctcoastalobgyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Birth-Registration-Form-1-1-16.pdf">2016</a> and <a href="https://www.pdffiller.com/jsfiller-desk17/?requestHash=fef38141b36e73b99b9b89c85d4b054fc0b6779c2cba8e58b73c7362e8ed858a&amp;projectId=1097821511&amp;loader=tips&amp;replace_gtm=false#0261134a40d441bc9464238ebc98427d">2017</a> shows the change from “Mother’s Worksheet” to “Birth Parent’s Worksheet.” The Daily Wire reached out to the Connecticut Department of Public Health for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
Similar guidance for “birthing parents” is issued by the <a href="https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/Documents/Reporting-Registries/eVitals/Birthing%20Parent%27s%20Worksheet.pdf">Pennsylvania Department of Health</a> and the <a href="https://ccphohio.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/02/nbbirthcertpacket.pdf">Ohio Department of Health</a>.
The Head Start program of the Department of Health and Human Services updated several of their parenting resources in recent months to incorporate “inclusive language.”
In a note from the <a href="https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/how-hs-services-improve-maternal-birth-outcomes.pdf">PDF</a> for improving outcomes of “birthing parents,” the HHS acknowledges the language update: “This document uses the terms ‘birthing parents’ and ‘pregnant and postpartum people’ to refer to anyone who gives birth, regardless of their gender identity, which may be female, male, nonbinary, or other.”
On a <a href="https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/nutrition/article/breastfeeding-infant-nutrition">page</a> updated on August 10, 2022, dedicated to information on Child Nutrition, HHS included a note on the vocabulary update. “Consider using the words ‘parent,’ ‘birthing parent,’ and ‘pregnant person’ instead of or in addition to ‘woman’ and ‘mother,’” reads the HHS guidance.
The HHS Head Start program also provides resources on breastfeeding, for which they opt to include the term “<a href="https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/nutrition/article/breastfeeding-infant-nutrition">chestfeeding</a>.” They explain, “‘Chestfeeding’ is another term that can be used as a way for transgender and nonbinary parents to describe how they feed and nurture their babies after childbirth by feeding them milk from their chest.”
The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) created a <a href="https://www.bfmed.org/assets/Gender%20Inclusive%20Statement.pdf">language guide</a> last year with a table titled &#8220;Suggested Terms in Breastfeeding and Human Lactation.&#8221; On the left-hand side, a column labeled &#8220;traditional terms&#8221; includes &#8220;breast milk,&#8221; while a middle column of &#8220;Gender-inclusive terms&#8221; suggests &#8220;father’s milk&#8221; as a possible alternative.
The guideline also includes words &#8220;chestfeeding,&#8221; &#8220;human milk feeding,&#8221; and &#8220;lactating person&#8221; to use in place of &#8220;traditional terms&#8221; like breastfeeding, nursing mother, and breast. The ABM published its latest <a href="https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/bfm.2021.29188.abm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">position statement</a> in August of 2021, with its intended mission to affirm their &#8220;commitment to gender equality and health equity&#8221; and provide &#8220;guidelines on infant feeding and lactation-related language and gender.&#8221;

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> signed an executive order Wednesday calling on Health and Human Services Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/xavier-becerra">Xavier Becerra</a> to aid women crossing state lines to obtain <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion">abortions</a>.
“[Republicans] don’t have a clue about the power of American women,” the president said on Wednesday before he signed the order. “Last night in Kansas they found out.”
Biden&#8217;s order, a response to leftist panic following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, includes a provision that asks Becerra to invite states who are treating patients who have crossed state lines for abortions to apply for Medicaid waivers.
&#8220;In furtherance of the policy set forth in section 1 of this order, the Secretary of HHS shall consider actions to advance access to reproductive healthcare services, including, to the extent permitted by Federal law, through Medicaid for patients traveling across State lines for medical care,&#8221; the order said.
Medicaid is taxpayer funded, and the Hyde Amendment prohibits the use of taxpayer funds for abortions. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire on this point.
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The order also notes that Becerra &#8220;shall evaluate the adequacy of research, data collection, and data analysis and interpretation efforts at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other relevant HHS components in accurately measuring the effect of access to reproductive healthcare on maternal health outcomes and other health outcomes,&#8221; before taking &#8220;appropriate actions to improve those efforts.&#8221;
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As Americans across the nation move past the pandemic, President Joe Biden&#8217;s top health official sounded the alarm on Monday that existing or new variants of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID</a> may resurge toward the end of the year.
&#8220;Come the fall and winter,”  Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), told a reporter. “Most everyone who is an expert on pandemics and these viruses will tell you that there&#8217;s a strong chance we will see a resurgence of the virus — whether it&#8217;s the variants that we have now or the new variants.&#8221;
&#8220;We gotta be ready,&#8221; he added.
Becerra, who listed ending the pandemic as his top priority when appointed the position, <a href="https://aspr.hhs.gov/legal/PHE/Pages/COVID19-12Apr2022.aspx">renewed</a> the Public Health Emergency Orders on April 12 for another 90 days with an expiration date of July 15.
However, Bloomberg News <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-11/white-house-to-extend-covid-public-health-emergency#:~:text=The%20Biden%20administration%20has%20said,public%20health%20emergency%20in%20May.">reported</a> on Monday the Biden Administration would push the COVID emergency health orders back since HHS did not issue a 60 days notice to states since the last renewal, which the department pledged to do if it decided to terminate the orders.
Since he took his position shortly after Biden assumed office last year, Becerra has extended the public health emergency orders five times.
The Republican National Committee <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1546533263476461573">shared</a> Becerra&#8217;s latest comment adding the Biden Administration promised to shut down the virus.
&#8220;But it was all a lie,&#8221; the committee said.
Twitter users flooded the tweet with comments saying the so-called resurgence would rise from the &#8220;midterm variant,&#8221; as Becerra hinted the spike could happen around the 2022 Midterm elections in November.
Becerra&#8217;s COVID concerns emerged the same day legacy media circulated reports of scientists warning Americans of a new coronavirus mutant spreading in India and other countries — including the United States.
The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-india-united-states-e461b0c0db39707aab884378c24292ae">reports</a> that scientists said the new variant, BA.2.75, may stand against immunity, previous infections, and vaccines. However, the effects of the mutation remain unclear.
&#8220;It&#8217;s still really early for us to draw too many conclusions,&#8221; Matthew Binnicker, director of clinical virology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, told The Associated Press. &#8220;But it does look like, especially in India, the rates of transmission are showing kind of that exponential increase.&#8221;
Shishi Luo, head of infectious diseases for Helix, which provides the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with viral sequencing information, told The Associated Press since many countries worldwide have detected BA.2.75, it&#8217;s &#8220;an early indication it is spreading.&#8221;
But despite the ongoing spread of the coronavirus, a recent Senate Opportunity Fund survey suggests only 21 percent of Americans consider COVID a top concern.

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