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- Reports of new cases are at their lowest levels since June, and deaths are at their lowest since July.
- Cases are down in the last two weeks in almost every state and territory. Louisiana and Guam, with increases of less than 10 percent, are the sole exceptions.
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The pace of vaccination has slowed considerably over the last month, but the authorization of the Pfizer vaccine for use in 12- to 15-year-olds means millions more Americans are now eligible.
Look at theTimes' great presentation of current data, trends, and the impact on your community and where you work.
The United Kingdom had 2,412 new cases (62 fewer new cases than reported last week) and 4,450,392 total cases. There were seven new deaths (13 fewer deaths than last week’s issue), increasing the U.K.’s Covid death total to 127,691.
In Italy on May 18, there were 4,452 new cases and on that day Italy had 201 new deaths (this was 2,494 fewer new cases and 50 fewer deaths than data reported in the last issue); there are to date in Italy 4,167,025 total cases and 124,497 total Covid-19 deaths.
In France, fourth in number of cases, on May 18, there were 17,210 new cases, (2,761 fewer cases than what was reported 7 days ago) with a total of 5,898,347 cases. There were 201 new deaths (50 fewer new deaths than reported in last week’s issue) with a total of 108,040 Covid-19 deaths.
In Germany on May 18, there were 7,604 new cases; there have been 3,615,896 total cases. There were 278 new deaths (87,148 total Covid-19 deaths in Germany). In comparison to data reported 7 days ago, Germany had 1,357 fewer new cases and two more new deaths.
On May 18, Canada had 4,053 new cases on May 18 (1,553 fewer new cases than reported 7 days ago); 1,338,141 total cases. Canada had 35 new deaths, three more new deaths than 7 days ago for a total of 25,018 deaths.
India, on May 18, had 267,174 new cases; 33,774,945 total cases. India had 4,525 new deaths, for a total of 283,276 deaths. In comparison to data reported 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 is not reliable.
Mask or not, where and when, are questions that we are all asking; and scientists, pundits, and neighbors are answering. We go to the experts at StatNews for "Mask mandates might be going away, but don’t ditch yours just yet, scientists caution." The answer offered is “People should prepare for Covid restrictions to be revisited in the fall, especially given uncertainties around how emerging variants will impact vaccines' effectiveness in preventing disease spread.”
As to variants, we get a little help from The New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. The Times gives us, "How the United States beat the variants, for now," and tells us that “The country has managed to avoid a variant-fueled spike in coronavirus cases. Scientists say we were lucky.” The Chronicle in a May 19 article "California's vaccines vs. variants race: The vaccines are winning" finds that an “aggressive public health restrictions, a frantically sped-up vaccine rollout — and probably a fair amount of luck — appear to have paid off. The variant wave that briefly lapped at California never swelled into a surge.”
Now to the laboratory, both the large ones in hospital and the your doctor’s office rapid test repertoire, for a look at the rapid Covid-19 test innovation we rejoin The New York Times that has a great article asking "Is it Covid or the flu? New combo tests can find out. The New York Times reports that advances in rapid testing offer “New tests for respiratory illnesses can look for more than 20 pathogens at a time.”
Read or listen via AUDM to Jill Lepore’s recent New Yorker article on both the history of and the many current manifestations of "Burnout.” Your curators offer this in a take-a-break-and-find-ways-to-understand and find zen (or self-help yourself to peace and tranquility in these transitional times).
Some of our readers attended our Village Well Bookstore Zoom panel this past Monday. We post what was a look at three heroes in the trenches of Covid-19 that provided us with insights into what went right, how they adapted and what lessons were learned, and most importantly it provides inspiration to all who attended or will watch it in the future.
From our unmasked Culver City office and as we post as one of us is on on the plane (masked) to our Ann Arbor office we offer Revitalize for May 20, 2021:
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Revitalize: The week in health-care news you need
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Mask mandates might be going away, but don’t ditch yours just yet, scientists caution. People should prepare for Covid restrictions to be revisited in the fall, especially given uncertainties around how emerging variants will impact vaccines' effectiveness in preventing disease spread.
How the United States beat the variants, for now. The country has managed to avoid a variant-fueled spike in coronavirus cases. Scientists say we were lucky.
California's vaccines vs. variants race: The vaccines are winning.
Aggressive public health restrictions, a frantically sped-up vaccine rollout — and.. But aggressive public health restrictions, a frantically sped-up vaccine rollout — and probably a fair amount of luck — appear to have paid off. The variant wave that briefly lapped at California never swelled into a surge.
Is it Covid or the flu? New combo tests can find out. New tests for respiratory illnesses can look for more than 20 pathogens at a time.
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Burnout: Modern affliction or human condition?
To be burned out is to be used up, like a battery so depleted that it can’t be recharged. In people, unlike batteries, it is said to produce the defining symptoms of “burnout syndrome:" exhaustion, cynicism, and loss of efficacy. Around the world, three out of five workers say they’re burned out. A 2020 U.S. study put that figure at three in four. A recent book claims that burnout afflicts an entire generation. In “Can’t even: How millennials became the burnout generation,” the former BuzzFeed news reporter Anne Helen Petersen figures herself as a “pile of embers.” Burnout is widely reported to have grown worse during the pandemic. The New York Times solicited testimonials from readers. “I used to be able to send perfect emails in a minute or less,” one wrote. “Now it takes me days just to get the motivation to think of a response.”
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