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The most recent New York Times summary states that as of July 7 about 250 deaths are being reported in the US each day, the fewest since March 2020. Case numbers remain near their lowest levels since testing became widely available, but they have started to trend slowly upward.
The uptick in cases is primarily due to localized outbreaks in places with low vaccination rates. Parts of Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and Nevada are struggling as the Delta variant spreads.
Most of the country continues to see very low case rates. The outlook is especially positive east of the Mississippi River and on the West Coast. The vaccination campaign continues at a plodding pace. Despite ample supply, fewer than a million doses are being administered each day. Less than half of the country is fully vaccinated.
On July 13, 2021 in the U.S., the seven-day daily average number of new cases was 25,661, the 14-day change in cases was an increase of 109 percent with a total of 33,893,767 total cases. On July 13 in the U.S. the number of new deaths was 825, the 7-day daily average number of new deaths was 330, the 14-day change in new deaths was increase of 17 percent, and the U.S. death total has reached 607,369. We once again ask you to use the link to The New York Times Covid Map to view the hard hit states
Given this bad news as to case and death spikes among the unvaccinated, you will find for a second week in row a table state data on case increases and vaccination rates:
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We now offer the Table on the “Four States not in last week’s table who have climbed to the top of the 14-Day increase in cases chart.”
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Heard or read about Tennessee’s new vaccine policies and/or did their 429 percent 14-day Increase in cases catch your eye; for that we turn to the Tennessee paper of record The Nashville Tennessean for their recent article "Make polio great again? Americans outraged as Tennessee abandons vaccine outreach to teens." The Tennessee Health Department “will no longer be providing vaccination information to minors, according to documents obtained by the Tennessean.”
Now to comparative data where all of Europe shows an increase in the 14-day average number of cases, yet all but the U.K. show a significant decrease in the 14-day death average. Canada is doing great with a decrease in cases and deaths and 70 percent of its citizens with one dose of the vaccine. Let’s look at the numbers:
In the United Kingdom on July 13, the seven-day daily average number of new cases was 33,227, the 14-day change in cases was an increase of 89 percent with a total of 519,459 cases. On July 13 in the U.K., the number of new deaths was 30, the 14-day change in new deaths was an increase of 81 percent, and the U.K. death total has reached 128,481.
In Italy on July 13, the seven-day daily average number of new cases was 1,284; the 14-day change in cases was an increase of 86 percent with a total of 4,273,693 cases. On July 13, the number of new deaths was 15, the 14-day change in new deaths was a decrease of 53 percent, and the Italian death total has reached 127,808.
In France on July 13, the seven-day daily average number of new cases was 4,335; the 14-day change in cases was an increase of 115 percent with a total of 5,002,945 cases. The number of new deaths was 25, the 14-day change in new deaths was a decrease of 26 percent, and the French death total has reached 115,597.
In Germany on July 13, the seven-day daily average number of new cases was 860; the 14-day change in cases was an increase of 40 percent with a total of 3,745,312 cases. On July 13, the number of new deaths was 25, the 14-day change in new deaths was a decrease of 46 percent, and the German death total has reached 91,925.
In Canada on July 13, the seven-day daily average number of new cases was 447; the 14-day change in cases was a decrease of 31 percent with a total of 1,428,668 cases. The number of new deaths was 10, the 14-day change in new deaths was a decrease of 45 percent, and the Canadian death total has reached 26,414.
A reader asked us recently for an update on "long Covid" and we turn to The Detroit Free Press for "Doctors, hospitals finding ways to deal with long COVID-19 syndrome" that reports the “Henry Ford Health System has created a post-Covid recovery program to help patients overcome the myriad long-term aftereffects of the virus.”
A most interesting article in The Atlantic caught our attention, and we encourage you to link to "Doctors might have been focusing on the wrong asthma triggers."
"Access to remaining relief funds needed to keep long term care facilities afloat" is an article from the American Health Care Association's journal Provider by Joanne Erickson. She reports that “Nursing homes and assisted living communities have received approximately $14 billion of the $178 billion in the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) established by the CARES Act. This funding has been instrumental for long term care facilities struggling to make ends meet during the pandemic, but the remainder of the funds must be released so providers can continue to provide quality care to the nation’s seniors, according to the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL). ”
The Washington Post summarizes the possibility of a very large pot of funds that includes funding for elder and child care in the “reconciliation” part of the next round of the stimulus, please link to Senate Democrats announce plans for a $3.5 trillion budget package to expand Medicare, advance Biden priorities.
Back from a most informative St. Louis weekend with folks doing the right things in a denier culture and preparing for new public event in our office in Culver City, this is Revitalize for Jul 15, 2021:
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Revitalize: The week in health-care news you need
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Make polio great again?: Americans outraged as Tennessee abandons vaccine outreach to teens. The Tennessee Health Department will no longer be providing vaccination information to minors, according to documents obtained by the Tennessean.
Where are the newest Covid hot spots? Mostly places with low vaccination rates.
How we'll know when the Covid-19 crisis is over.
Meet Maryland's secret weapon in the battle to close the Latino vaccination gap.
Doctors, hospitals finding ways to deal with long COVID-19 syndrome. Henry Ford Health System has created a post-COVID recovery program to help patients overcome the myriad long-term aftereffects of the virus.
Doctors might have been focusing on the wrong asthma triggers. The pandemic was a big social experiment that sent asthma attacks plummeting.
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Access to remaining relief funds needed to keep long term care facilities afloat. Nursing homes and assisted living communities have received approximately $14 billion of the $178 billion in the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) established by the CARES Act. This funding has been instrumental for long term care facilities struggling to make ends meet during the pandemic, but the remainder of the funds must be released so providers can continue to provide quality care to the nation’s seniors, according to the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL).
Senate Democrats announce plans for $3.5 trillion budget package to expand Medicare, advance Biden priorities.
Cities in a post-Covid world:
This paper examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and its related economic, fiscal, social and political fallout on cities and metropolitan regions. We assess the effect of the pandemic on urban economic geography at the intra- and inter-regional geographic scales in the context of four main forces: the social scarring instilled by the pandemic; the lockdown as a forced experiment; the need to secure the urban built environment against future risks; and changes in the urban form and system. At the macrogeographic scale, we argue the pandemic is unlikely to significantly alter the winner-take-all economic geography and spatial inequality of the global city system. At the microgeographic scale, however, we suggest that it may bring about a series of short-term and some longer-running social changes in the structure and morphology of cities, suburbs and metropolitan regions.
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