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Alex Michael Azar II ( born June 17, 1967) is an American lawyer and former drug company executive who is the current United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, after being nominated by President Donald Trump on November 13, 2017 and confirmed by the United States Senate on January 24, 2018. He was formerly the United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services under George W.

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We said we would have doses available for 20 million people that could be available, and of course, that was a projection based on estimates of when FDA would approve, fDA ended up approving later -- close to Christmas. You've got a natural scale up.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

We now have enough confidence that our ongoing production will be quality and available to provide the second dose for people, so we're not sitting on a reserve anymore, we've made that available to the states to order.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

I implore you to continue to condemn unequivocally any form of violence, to demand that no one attempt to disrupt the inaugural activities in Washington or elsewhere, and to continue to support unreservedly the peaceful and orderly transition of power on January 20, 2021.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

Operation Warp Speed achieved in nine months what many doubted would be possible in a year and a half or more.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

Being able to investigate the virus in January would’ve helped the United States and the world develop a science and data-driven response, instead we were flying blind, with human-to-human transmission of the virus not officially confirmed until Jan. 20.

Found on FOX News 6 months ago Health

We learned about an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan, China, on December 30, not through that country’s official channels, as required under the international health regulations, but through media monitoring that we do, as well as through a notification from Taiwan’s Economic and Cultural office here in the United States, one of the very first ways the U.S. government was notified of a novel virus in mainland China, was by people from Taiwan.

Found on FOX News 6 months ago Health

In May, member states of the World Health Organization had to authorize by resolution an investigation specifically into the virus’ origins. Unbelievably, it was only this week that the investigators were allowed into China. Further, these investigators will largely examine the analyses already done by Chinese scientists, this flawed scope of investigation is the result of months of negotiations over last summer and into the fall, between WHO and China, with no input from the WHO executive board.

Found on FOX News 6 months ago Health

Our teams were also pressing the Chinese government to send us viral isolates from patients there, and China has still, one year later, failed to provide the first generation viral isolates.

Found on FOX News 6 months ago Health

We will be allocating them based on the pace of administration as reported by states and by the size of the 65 and over population in each state, we're giving states two weeks' notice of this shift to give them the time necessary to plan and to improve their reporting if they think their data is faulty.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

We are telling states they should open vaccinations to all people... 65 and over and all people under age 65 with a comorbidity with some form of medical documentation.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

We will be allocating them based on the pace of administration as reported by states and by the size of the 65 and over population in each state. We're giving states two weeks' notice of this shift to give them the time necessary to plan and to improve their reporting if they think their data is faulty, this new system gives states a strong incentive to ensure that all vaccinations are being properly reported, which it currently is not, and it gives states a strong incentive to ensure doses are going to work.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

Every vaccine dose that is sitting in a warehouse without going into an arm could mean one more life lost or another hospital bed occupied.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

This new system gives states a strong incentive to ensure that all vaccinations are being properly reported, which it currently is not, and it gives states a strong incentive to ensure doses are going to work.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

Infectious diseases don’t know any boundaries, we have mixed messages coming out from higher levels of government right now, and that really is unfortunate because that does get people confused – when you have mixed messages people who have their own agenda can always find one of those messages that agrees when them.

Found on FOX News 6 months ago Health

We have mixed messages coming out from higher levels of government right now, and that really is unfortunate because that does get people confused – when you have mixed messages people who have their own agenda can always find one of those messages that agrees when them.

Found on FOX News 6 months ago Health

If we get 70-85% vaccinated over the next several months, and we do it correctly and make this a make this what it is – a medical emergency – we can get that accomplished by the middle to the end of summer so hopefully we can get back to some form of normality as we head into the fall.

Found on FOX News 6 months ago Health

We have product that is going through QC right now -- quality control -- for sterility, identity check -- that -- we have tens and tens of millions of product. We always will. But batches fail. Sterility fails. ... And then you don't have a product for that second dose, and frankly, talking about that or encouraging that can really undermine a critical public health need, which is that people come back for their second vaccine.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

And frankly, talking about that or encouraging that can really undermine a critical public health need, which is that people come back for their second vaccine.

Found on CNN 6 months ago Top News

States can also accelerate vaccine administration by moving on to providing vaccinations to broader populations right now, there is no reason that states need to complete, say, vaccinating all health care providers before opening up vaccinations to older Americans or other especially vulnerable populations.

Found on FOX News 6 months ago Health

We’re very optimistic about our ability to enhance production from Pfizer and Moderna to get additional commitments.

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Top News

Making it possible for Americans to do their own rapid COVID-19 self-test at home by prescription is the latest addition to our constantly expanding arsenal of COVID-19 testing options.

Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

Twenty million people should get vaccinated in just the next several weeks, and then we'll just keep rolling out vaccines through January, February, March as they come off the production lines.

Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

That's something that the FDA has not ruled on and CDC has not ruled on, yet, in terms of providing guidance.

Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

This dereliction of duty has been absolutely devastating for the entire globe.

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

Two vaccines, each with 95 % efficacy, rivaling the 98 % efficacy of our measles vaccine. Produced in some of the largest vaccine clinical trials ever conducted in history. Over 40,000 patients in each of these clinical trials demonstrating good safety profiles.

Found on FOX News 8 months ago U.S.

We've made it very clear that when GSA makes a determination, we will ensure complete, cooperative professional transitions and planning, we follow the guidance. We're about getting vaccines and therapeutics invented and get the clinical trial data and saving lives here. That's where our focus is as we go forward with our efforts.

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

Obviously, if there's a transition here, we're going to ensure it's a professional, cooperative one.

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

Please just give United States a bit more time of your individual, responsible behavior of washing your hands, watch your distance, wear your face coverings when you can't watch your distance.

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

God forbid we get great data and it comes out of the Data and Safety Monitoring Board and the FDA finds that it meets their standards, and we aren't ready to distribute, we need to be ready for all contingencies and that's why the CDC is doing this.

Found on CNN 11 months ago Health

Today is a historic day for global health, and it's a cause for celebration for everyone who works to improve Africans health, congratulations to everyone who helped make it possible.

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

We dream in drug development of something like a 35 % mortality reduction. This is a major advance in the treatment of patients.

Found on CNN 11 months ago Health

The data we gathered suggests that patients who were treated early in their disease course, within three days of being diagnosed, with plasma containing high levels of antibodies, benefited the most from treatment. We saw about a 35 % better survival in the patients who benefited most from the treatment.

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

For any vaccine that we have bought -- so for instance, the Pfizer vaccine -- those hundred million doses would actually be acquired by the US government, then given for free to Americans.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

We will ensure that any vaccine that we're involved in sponsoring is either free to the American people or is affordable.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

We've got to use the full power of the U.S. government and the private sector here to compress all of those (drug trial) timelines, reduce inefficiency in development and use the power of the U.S. government to produce at risk, scale hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines even while we're running the clinical trials to prove their safe and effective.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago U.S.

The administration heard that on the first couple of distributions -- supplies were not always getting to hospitals most in need.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

Whether that can be achieved or not, it is realistic, we would not be doing this if we did not think it were realistic. Is it guaranteed? Of course it is not.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

We developed a diagnostic test at the CDC, so we can confirm if somebody has this, we will be spreading that diagnostic around the country so that we are able to do rapid testing on site.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

But thanks to President Trump's historically aggressive containment efforts, we've actually contained the spread of this virus here in the United States at this point, i think part of the message to the American people is we all need to take a bit of deep breath here.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

So I think so far, our measures have been quite effective.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

This is an unprecedented potentially severe health challenge globally, and will require additional measures.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

We have enacted the most aggressive containment measures in the history of our country.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

I'm still chairman of the task force.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

It was very clear that Azar wasn't able to marshal the forces across the government like he needed to.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

Dr. Redfield and I made the offer on January 6th - 36 days ago, 60,000 cases and 1,300 deaths ago, we made the offer to send the The CDC experts in to assist their Chinese colleagues to get to the bottom of key scientific questions like, how transmissible is this disease ? What is the severity ? What is the incubation period and can there be asymptomatic transmission ?

Found on Reuters 1 year ago U.S.

Nobody would ever be reassigned or discriminated against or prejudiced or retaliated against because of raising concerns about the functioning of the department, if our employees raise concerns about our processes, if something proves not to be right, we are grateful.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Even if these allegations proved to be true, there was no spreading of the disease from this.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

While this virus poses a serious public health threat, the risk to the American public remains low at this time, and we are working to keep this risk low, we are committed to protecting the health and safety of all Americans, and this public health emergency declaration is the latest in the series of steps the Trump Administration has taken to protect our country.

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

Obviously the Canadians are going to be looking out for Canadians, we're here to put American patients first.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Neonatal abstinence syndrome is one of the most heartbreaking parts of the opioid crisis.

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

The Food and Drug Administration intends to finalize a guidance document that would commence enforcement to require that all flavors, other than tobacco flavor, would be removed from the market, this would include mint and menthol flavoring, as well as candy flavors, bubblegum flavor, fruit flavor, alcohol flavor. You get the drift.

Found on CNN 1 year ago U.S.

This would include mint and menthol flavoring, as well as candy flavors, bubblegum flavor, fruit flavor, alcohol flavor. You get the drift.

Found on CNN 1 year ago U.S.

The government of Tanzania, however, has not made available the samples or the ability to test the index case of the individual who died, nor has it made available any other information.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

This is exceptionally harmful to our children, an entire generation of children risk becoming addicted to nicotine because of the attractiveness ... and availability of these vaping products.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Environment

Once the FDA would finalize this guidance, we would begin enforcement actions to remove all such products from the marketplace.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Environment

When I was there I actually signed a letter of intent with minister of health Juan Pablo Uribe for the United States to be providing HIV antiretrovirals to Colombia for the use with Venezuelan refugees.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

We believe that its vital to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and to treat those who have it because with appropriate treatment individuals who have HIV/AIDS can live healthy, long, productive lives.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

Addressing the humanitarian crisis caused by the failed Maduro regime is a top humanitarian priority for President Trump and his administration.

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health

What we're saying today is we're open, there is a pathway. We can be convinced.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

At the end of the day, while we support getting rid of rebates, we won't put seniors at risk for premiums going up.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I think you will see the days of rebates are over.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Patient empowerment requires transparency around price and quality, every day, American patients are being taken advantage of by a system that hides critical information from them that they need to make decisions for them and their families.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

In my country, social media conspiracy groups confuse well-meaning parents so they hesitate to get the recommended vaccinations.

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Health

If you had been paying attention in the last month, you would know that the President of the United States, President Trump, was very clear and emphatic: get your shots, get your kids vaccinated, vaccines are safe.

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Health

The President and I have been very clear : We support importation if it can be done safely and if we can deliver real savings to patients, we'll have to see what plan Florida comes up with or any other state.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

The last thing we need is open borders for unsafe drugs in search of savings that can not be safely achieved, you can't improve competition and choice in our drug markets with gimmicks like these.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Canada simply doesn't have enough drugs to sell them to us for less money, and drug companies won't sell Canada or Europe more just to have them imported here.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Instead of trying to expand Medicare into a universal entitlement that even covers wealthy Americans of working age, as some have proposed, we need to fulfill Medicare's promise to our seniors.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

We commend Johnson & Johnson for recognizing the value of informing consumers about list prices and for doing so voluntarily. We call on other manufacturers to follow their lead.

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Business

There are so many stories of Americans with serious mental illness, and their families, that end in tragic outcomes because treatment options are not available or not paid for, more treatment options are needed, and that includes more inpatient and residential options that can help stabilize Americans with serious mental illness.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

Inpatient treatment is just one part of what needs to be a complete continuum of care, and participating states will be expected to take action to improve community-based mental health care.

Found on CNN 2 years ago Health

My understanding is that the rider does not in any way impede our research mission. It is simply about advocacy.

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I commend Pfizer for its constructive and professional approach, and its desire to work with President Trump to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Business

The increases must stop and it shows a constructive professional appropriate approach by Pfizer in interacting with the government and the president to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Business

I can not reunite them while the parents are in custody because the court order doesn't allow kids to be with their parents for more than 20 days.

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

Raising awareness is a key piece of defeating the threat of opioid addiction, which too many Americans still do not fully understand. These ads are a targeted effort to promote awareness, especially among our youth, about the deadliness of opioid misuse and the risks of opioid addiction.

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We are trying to work to facilitate that information be accessible to top app developers so that information can be sucked into applications that are very useable and intuitive for the patient to look at their own data, we think that is a big part of putting the patient in the driver seat in the health care system.

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Opinion

HHS has a $1.2 trillion budget. that means it’s bigger than the British Empire.

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Opinion

I know what I’m doing. I know this space, i know how cost works in the system. What if I were a grandmother and I’m trusting the system will take care of me? What if I’m a 20-something and I have a high deductible plan? I was able to fight for that information. I knew to fight for that information ... they wouldn’t. I think it’s a right to know up front what we are going to pay for a procedure.

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Opinion

I think that’s a direct result of pressure on drug pricing and benefits.

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Opinion

I know how cost works in the system. What if I were a grandmother and I’m trusting the system will take care of me? What if I’m a 20-something and I have a high deductible plan? I was able to fight for that information. I knew to fight for that information ... they wouldn’t. I think it’s a right to know up front what we are going to pay for a procedure.

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Opinion

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