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Greetings!
Good Monday morning and a good mid-June (on our way to summer) week for all. The last days of teaching and so much wrapping up work and family life to get to New York City (for Rebecca) has demanded that we do a “Monday drop.” We believe the curators used the extra time wisely and now turn to the The New York Times State of the Virus for June 9, 2022:
- After weeks of growth, reports of new cases in the United States have been largely flat in recent days.
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Roughly 110,000 cases are announced each day in the U.S. — a fraction of the true toll, since many infections go uncounted in official reports — but roughly half of all states are in the midst of steady declines. In the past two weeks, nearly every Northeastern state has seen cases fall by 30 percent or more.
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As conditions improve in the Northeast and Midwest, though, the South and West have begun to emerge as new hotspots. Cases have more than doubled over the past two weeks in Wyoming and Oklahoma.
- Similar regional distinctions are visible in hospitalizations. The number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus is declining in the populous Northeast, but in the rest of the country, hospitalizations are increasing. Overall, this has led to a modest increase in the number of people hospitalized with the virus at the national level — roughly 29,000 on an average day, up 12 percent from two weeks ago.
- Fatality data has been volatile in recent weeks because of delays in reporting around Memorial Day. Still, reports of new deaths remain low. Fewer than 350 deaths are being reported each day, down from more than 2,600 a day at the height of the winter Omicron surge.
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The Atlantic takes a look at national trends in the linked “In the winter, cases shot up and plummeted with unprecedented speed. But something else is going on with this surge.” Rapid tests are available for all and used by many and with casing shooting up we very much believe you should read from The Atlantic “A negative Covid test has never been so meaningless – A string of negatives can still presage a clear-as-day positive.”
Vaccines for kids under five will soon be available and we take a deep dive into that most anticipated development with three articles. The first “Kids are at risk of severe Covid outcomes—and immunity from infection isn’t enough. – Don’t wait to get your kid vaccinated” and the second ”Vaccines for the littlest kids have already flopped – Covid vaccines for infants and toddlers are stalling and stumbling even before they’ve left the gate” are both from The Atlantic. The third “An emergency doctor and parent sorts through Covid vaccine options for kids under 5” is from StatNews; please link to all three articles.
Shall you and we go or shall we stay, that is on foreign or even local vacation? CNN offers us some answers in “With a rise in Covid cases, should people change summer travel plans? An expert weighs in.”
On Sunday June 5, we read in The New York Times “A mental health clinic in school? No, thanks, says the school board”; please link to this brilliant article that reports “American teenagers are reporting severe levels of anxiety and depression. But when Connecticut moved to expand mental health services in schools, it ran into fierce opposition in one town.”
Our last article takes us out of covid and into schools and doctors office to the important issue of how we define and treat ADHD; please link the The Conversation important article "ADHD: Medication alone doesn't improve classroom learning for children – new research.”
Preventing more baby formula shortages (with General Gustave Perna) from In the Bubble is our podcast of the week and offers us a must listen interview with “the man responsible for manufacturing and distributing the COVID-19 vaccine in less than a year.” You may choose to fast forward to the interview yet once you take the time to listen go General Perna’s analysis of how to and not to ensure that supply chains work. We believe that you will also learn from General Perna and host Andy Slavitt as they relive Operation Warp Speed that brings to anyone responsible for enterprise or team management lessons from that effort.
Taking a break from the team picking peaches from the most bountiful office backyard peach tree for Grace Diner, our great local meals for the underserved program, we bring you Revitalize for June 13, 2022:
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Revitalize: The week in health-care news you need
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N.J. reports 11 COVID deaths, 3,120 cases. Vaccine doses ordered for kids under 5.
New COVID subvariants are taking over in Kansas City, but case numbers have dipped.
Coronavirus daily news updates, June 9: What to know today about COVID-19 in the Seattle area, Washington state and the world.
Covid-19 was deadly to working-class Americans in 2020, researcher says.
School’s out. Will that help California get ahead of COVID-19?
In the winter, cases shot up and plummeted with unprecedented speed. But something else is going on with this surge.
A negative Covid test has never been so meaningless. A string of negatives can still presage a clear-as-day positive.
Kids are at risk of severe Covid outcomes—and immunity from infection isn’t enough. Don’t wait to get your kid vaccinated.
An emergency doctor and parent sorts through Covid vaccine options for kids under 5.
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Vaccines for the littlest kids have already flopped. Covid vaccines for infants and toddlers are stalling and stumbling even before they’ve left the gate.
With a rise in Covid cases, should people change summer travel plans? An expert weighs in
A mental health clinic in school? No, thanks, says the school board. American teenagers are reporting severe levels of anxiety and depression. But when Connecticut moved to expand mental health services in schools, it ran into fierce opposition in one town.
ADHD: Medication alone doesn't improve classroom learning for children – new research.
As the man responsible for manufacturing and distributing the COVID-19 vaccine in less than a year, US Army four-star General Gustave Perna has a thing or two to say about today’s supply chain issues. He says product shortages, from vaccines to baby formula, are preventable if you center mission over profit and run hypotheticals that prepare your team for worst case scenarios.
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