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We return to more data reporting for the U.S., some European countries as well as Canada. The New York Times data is what we are using and that affords us a look at 14-day change and average data. We once again ask you to use the link to The New York Times Covid map to view the hard hit states, which illustrates:

State of Virus U.S. updated for July 7:

Delta , as expected, is now the dominant virus variant in the U.S.
Time is running out for many eligible U.S. students to get fully vaccinated before schools reopen.
A rise in Covid cases and hospitalizations in Nevada reflects vaccine challenges facing the U.S.
New York City scales back Covid monitoring , even as Delta risk looms.
Pro golfers and their coaches also went virtual during the pandemic.
A fast-growing Covid surge in Fiji is flooding the Pacific nation’s health facilities with patients.
Over 125 people tested positive for the virus after attending a Texas church camp.

On July 6, 2021 in the U.S., there were 12,914 new cases, the 14-day change in cases was an increase of 14 percent with a total of 33,713,995 total cases; on July 6, there were 16,691 new deaths; the 14-day change in deaths was a decrease of 2 percent and the U.S. death total has reached 605,507.

In the United Kingdom on July 6, there were 26,224 new cases; the 14-day change in cases was an increase of 159 percent with a total of 4,958,888 cases. On July 6, the 14-day average of daily deaths was 20; the U.K. death total has reached 128,268.

In Italy on July 6, there were 796 new cases, the 14-day change in cases was a decrease of 23 percent with a total of 4,264,704 cases; the 14-day average of daily deaths was 23 and the death total has reached 127,704.

In France on July 6, there were 2,338 new cases, the 14-day change in cases was an increase of 8 percent with a total of 5,852,599 cases; the fourteen day average of daily deaths was 27 and the French death total has reached 111,420.

In Germany, there were 597 new cases, the 14-day change in cases was a decrease of 30 percent with a total of 3,379,575 cases; the 14 day average of daily deaths was 39 and the German death total has reached 91,118.

In Canada on July 6, there were 473 new cases, the 14-day change in cases was a decrease of 45 percent with a total of 1,425,537 cases; on July 6 the fourteen day average of daily deaths was 14 and the Canadian death total has reached 26,345.

State of the virus worldwide

Another wave of the pandemic is hitting many parts of the world, with countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America experiencing their highest caseloads, driven in part by the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus. Worried about virus variants and the new surge, the W.H.O. and health officials in many countries are urging people to continue — or resume — wearing masks, while new lockdowns and travel bans take effect from Australia to Bangladesh and South Africa to Portugal.
The European Union has started using digital travel passes to free people from some travel restrictions by showing that they are fully vaccinated, have recently tested negative for the virus, or have recently recovered from infection.
More than three billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, equal to 40 for every 100 people, though the pace remains slow in poor countries, particularly in Africa. See each country’s progress here.

Say Europe, and you will ask "Can I get there this summer and fall?" Answers to that question are found in three great articles that follow. The first is based on the assumption that you have or someone you know has a Wall Street Journal subscription, and thereby we link: "Americans can travel to Europe again. Here’s how to get around."

Second we turn to a new source, Travel and Leisure, which reports "The four things to know before traveling to Europe this summer, according to an expert.

The third article is from The Washington Post who tell us "What to know as Europe reopens to U.S. travelers."

For another trilogy of do not miss articles link to The Atlantic. First, let the Pulitzer-Prize winner Ed Yong explain, "The three simple rules that underscore the danger of Delta." Yong tells us that “Three principles define this new phase of the pandemic: (1) The vaccines work against the variants; (2) the variants are hitting the unvaccinated hardest; and (3) the second rule could undermine the first one. Vaccines are still beating the variants, but the unvaccinated world is being pummeled."

Next from The Atlantic is "America’s vaccine future is fragmenting" because as you will read: “Vaccinated America is on track to real safety. Unvaccinated America still faces a real danger from Delta.”

Our third must read Atlantic article focuses on U.S. travel and offer us "The dos and don’ts of hot vax summer" that can be your “vaccinated American’s guide to traveling this summer.”

Our go-to Science and Medicine explainers at StatNews have taken off their lab coats and put on shorts, tee shirts, and sandals along with SPF 50 above sunscreen and as they head to the beach they send us "The 36 best books and podcasts on health and science to check out this summer." Wonder no more as to what Doctors Fauci and Walensky as well as all those practitioners and policy makers coming off endless all-nighters are reading at their beach house or mountain retreats. Great suggestions from and for those including you who need a summer break; you earned it!

Listening to favorite podcasts as we drive to the distant reaches of LA (today Pasadena) is now back and the good news is that the face-to-face lunch with friends in and out of health care policy practice business is the reason for such treks. A promotion on the newest Pod Save the World got me to the most recent episode of What a Day. You can listen or read the transcript of "Vaccine hesitation, under God," with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed. Dr Sayed, who is the former Detroit health commissioner, offers us up-to date information “about the spread of the Delta variant and Republican vaccination hesitancy.” He also offers us insight and some advice as to “a potential resurgence of COVID-19 when a partially-vaccinated America returns to indoor, crowded spaces this fall and winter.”

And an important reminder to save the date for a very important panel discussion moderated by our team and hosted by The Village Well bookstore: "Reinventing the city in a post-Covid world" with Culver City Mayor Alex Fisch, Long Beach Vice Mayor Rex Richardson, and LA City Council member Nithya Raman. Register at the Village Well events page.

From a refuge from the South Pasadena, CA heat in Jones Coffee and our offices in Culver City as well as newsrooms across the U.S., here is Revitalize for July 8, 2021: