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The New York Times offers from “State of the virus,” updated for May 26:
- The country is averaging about 30,000 cases a day, the fewest in about 11 months. Deaths are at their lowest levels since last summer.
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Nearly two in five people in the United States are fully vaccinated. About 1.8 million people are receiving a shot each day.
- No state is seeing a major increase in new cases, and many have seen declines of 40 percent or more in the last two weeks.
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Cases have been falling for a month in Michigan, the state with the worst spring surge. About 1,700 cases are emerging there each day, down from around 7,800 daily in mid-April.
For more in-depth reporting, please look at the Times' presentation of current data, trends, and the impact on your community and where you work.
In France, fourth in number of cases, on May 25, there were 3,155 new cases, (14,055 fewer cases than what was reported 7 days ago) with a total of 5,609,580 cases. There were 203 new deaths (two more new deaths than reported in last week’s issue) with a total of 108,879 Covid-19 deaths in France.
In Germany on May 25, there were 5,026 new cases; there have been 3,662,568 total cases. There were 122 new deaths (88,161 total Covid-19 deaths in Germany). In comparison to data reported 7 days ago, Germany had 5,026 fewer new cases and 156 fewer deaths.
On May 25 Canada had 4,101 new cases on May 25 (101 fewer new cases than reported 7 days ago); 1,365,516 total cases. Canada had 59 new deaths, 24 more new deaths than 7 days ago for a total of 25,324 deaths.
India’s reported data for May 25 had 208,886 new cases; 27,156,382 total cases. India had 4,172 new deaths, for a total of 311,421 deaths in comparison to 7 days ago. This illustrates a decrease in new cases and increase in new deaths, yet as the public health experts, journalists, and we have illustrated in multiple articles, the Indian data continues to be unreliable.
We lead with The Atlantic’s quote “Our view of this crisis has been blurry from the beginning” in the article "America’s entire understanding of the pandemic was shaped by messy data."
The great Washington Post health care reporter Dan Diamond tells us that "After pleading poverty for years, public health has collected a coronavirus-related windfall." Diamond explains and does his usual great reporting: “Now officials have a new challenge: responsibly spend the money — while convincing Congress to set aside funds for future priorities too.”
Ripping from the headlines everywhere we offer a look into the pandemic origins reporting with the Washington Post analysis: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible.
Next we post The Atlantic’s article "What happens when Americans can finally exhale?" Ed Yong who is very much on everyone’s reporting All-Star team draws us in with “The pandemic’s mental wounds are still wide open.”
Your publisher, in Evanston, IL, hosted a lunch with a leading long-term care executive/policy maker, one of the Midwest’s leading hospital executives, and our friend the Northwestern University professor of public policy. At lunch on Tuesday we discussed The Atlantic's “The truth about deinstitutionalization.” Please read this excellent article that reports how the mentally ill, their families, and neighbors face the great challenge brought by the lack of community resources and the limits of skilled and assisted living to effectively treat the mentally ill.
From early summer days in Michigan and Chicago and those holding up the fort in Culver City we offer Revitalize for May 27, 2021.
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Revitalize: The week in health-care news you need
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America’s entire understanding of the pandemic was shaped by messy data. Our view of this crisis has been blurry from the beginning.
After pleading poverty for years, public health has collected a coronavirus-related windfall.
Now officials have a new challenge: responsibly spend the money — while convincing Congress to set aside funds for future priorities too. Hundreds of billions of dollars flowed into public health in 2020. Lawmakers greenlit historic stimulus packages in the rush to beat back the pandemic.
One number to remember: $305.6 billion. That's how much last year's packages provided in supplemental funding to public health agencies, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the nation's public health fund, according to a Congressional Research Service report.
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Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible.
What happens when Americans can finally exhale. The pandemic’s mental wounds are still wide open.
The truth about deinstitutionalization:
A popular theory links the closing of state psychiatric hospitals to the increased incarceration of people with mental illness. But the reality is more complicated.
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Jerry Seelig, CEO
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