{"id":44121,"date":"2022-01-26T08:39:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44121"},"modified":"2022-01-26T15:39:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:39:55","slug":"hhs-secretary-under-fire-for-being-invisible-leader-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44121","title":{"rendered":"HHS secretary under fire for being &#8216;invisible&#8217; leader during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra is under fire for what critics say is a lack of leadership as the Biden administration wrestles with the direction of its COVID-19 response.<\/p>\n<p>Tasked with running the sprawling agency primarily responsible for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the day-to-day administration of the nation\u2019s unwieldy health system, Becerra is supposed to corral the differing health factions into a unified message on the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>But outside health experts and former officials said he\u2019s taken a back seat, ceding his authority to others, including the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44122,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44121\/revisions\/44122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}