Wolf names Alison Beam new secretary of health following Levine’s nomination by Biden
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The Allegheny County Health Department reported 464 new COVID-19 cases and one new death Saturday.
The new cases — from positive tests dated Jan. 2 to Jan. 22 — come from individuals 3 months to 97 years old, with a median age of 42.
The new death was an individual in their 40s. They died on Jan. 21.
To date, Allegheny County Health Department has reported 66,809 cases, 1,263 deaths from the virus and 3,878 past and present hospitalizations.
Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday nominated Alison Beam to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and named Dr. Wendy Braund as an interim acting physician general.
“Alison Beam is a talented public servant who brings years of experience in health care policy and implementation to this position,” Wolf said in a press release. “Alison knows that a strong, widely available, and successful vaccination strategy is the path out of the pains of this pandemic. Her foremost and immediate focus will be on the strategic distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, making sure Pennsylvania receives as many doses as possible from the federal government, and that the Pennsylvania Department of Health coordinates with hospitals, health centers, county and local governments, and pharmacy partners to make this vaccine as widely available as possible to Pennsylvanians everywhere.”
Beam will assume the role of acting secretary on Jan. 23, replacing outgoing Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine, who was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as assistant secretary of health of the federal Department of Health and Human Services.
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