Greetings!
At Revitalize we remain in lesser-data, more-summary stories summer-vacation mode. Our first summary is the now only three bullet points from The New York Times "State of the Virus" from June 16.
- The United States has been averaging fewer than 15,000 cases a day since early June, the lowest totals since testing became widely available.
- The United States surpassed 600,000 known coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. Around 350 deaths are being reported each day, the fewest since March 2020.
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The pace of vaccination has slowed considerably, to around a million doses a day, down from a peak of more than 3.3 million doses a day in mid-April.
Please do more than read the bullets above and turn immediately to the pages covering “State Trends,” which illustrate numbers of hospitalization and vaccination, and other key data trends.
We also very much encourage you to read or listen to NPR’s "Europe watches with worry as the Delta Variant spreads fast In the U.K. and Lisbon." To expand your date resources please use the link to a new source the home page of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control where you can both see the trends and get a snapshot as to whether that Tuscan Villa, Camino Trek, Berlin Club Scene, and/or a visit to the Tate Modern is in the future.
In the U.S. we have the jab and far too many fools who will not take it and thereby, as The Washington Post reports, "U.S. to narrowly miss Biden’s July 4 vaccination goal," the White House says. The Atlantic reports on the most tragic other side of the coin in the linked "Countries stuck in Coronavirus Purgatory." The Atlantic reports: “Much of Asia cannot (or will not) yet get jabbed, so the region is still having to rely on suppression tactics.”
In the everyone-will-be-talking-about-the-person-and-their-book we offer Andy Slavitt who led CMS in the Obama administration and then was President Biden’s senior advisor for Covid response. Andy has a new book out and before we can review or read it when can hear him summarize what went mostly wrong and post January very right in his interview in the Podcast Politics War Room.
STATNews offers us How the pandemic has reshaped collaboration — and competition — in science that argues and support the theory that the “pandemic showed the world what’s possible when scientists put collaboration first.”
In the best article we meant to post but delayed category we offer from The New Yorker The Death of Hahnemann Hospital. This great long form nonfiction piece tells both the local drama of saving a hospital as well as the tragedy that occurs when profits outweigh community health care needs.
And back to our on-going coverage of Skilled Nursing facilities attempts to recover from the past year. We offer from Skilled Nursing News
"OIG: Nursing home deaths jumped 32 percent in 2020." To put numbers on this headline, over 170,000 nursing home residents and staff died from Covid and over 1.1 million residents and staff were infected based on early data that very well adjusted upward.
Safely back in Culver City after completely full flights and New York City in full bloom, this is Revitalize for June 24, 2021:
