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As we hit the height of summer in Culver City and the northern lakes of Algonquin Park Canada, we give you the top line summary of health care and economic factors that will affect your fall work and travel.
- Known daily case counts have begun to tick downward in recent days, accompanied by similar declines in test positivity and hospitalizations so far this month.
- The virus is still infecting around 120,000 people each day, a higher level than was reported for much of the spring and summer — and an undercount, since most at-home tests are not included in official data. Yet the recent declines suggest that conditions may be improving.
- Cases have decreased since mid-July in more than half of all states, and in the states where cases are increasing, the changes are small. Only a few states have seen cases increase by 20 percent or more in the past two weeks.
- The change in hospitalizations is of particular note. After increasing steadily from April through July, the number of Americans hospitalized with coronavirus has decreased slightly throughout this week. If that trend holds, it would mark a significant reversal.
- Deaths have increased modestly in recent weeks, but they remain lower than they have been at most points in the pandemic. Fewer than 500 deaths are currently announced each day, down from more than 2,600 per day at the height of the Omicron surge.
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We lead with a podcast for the second issue in a row, and once again it is In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt. who asks "Why Do Some People Keep Getting COVID? (with Eric Topol)." In this podcast we hear that "Apart from your daily safety decisions, it may have to do with your genetics, gut microbiome, and defense proteins called interferons. This is a great explainer and needed addition to the coping mechanisms we have today.
The Conversation offers us as they always do great science and medical reporting in the must listen "How the omicron subvariant BA.5 became a master of disguise – and what it means for the current COVID-19 surge."
The Atlantic has editor Isabel Fattal interviewing great reporter Katherine Wu and they combine to offer our readers, "This Covid summer is nothing like the last one. Boosters are on the horizon, but cases are way up—and have been for months."
Helen Branswell, reporting in StatNews, is who we chose for the as-we-go to-press headline "U.S. declares monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency."
While we took a break for travel, and some new consulting work; Leader Schumer and Senator Manchin did not. Last week we found that key health care and climate programs may work their way through Congress and to a revitalized and healing President Biden's desk. We offer our readers a summary from Vox in "How Democrats plan to overhaul taxes, climate spending, and health care before the midterms." Sen. Joe Manchin’s new deal is giving Biden’s agenda another chance. Want the the President's summary, if so please link to Whitehouse Briefing Room "Remarks by President Biden on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022."
Revitalize has covered and our team at Seelig+Cussigh have advocated for SNF and other care settings' vaccine mandates. There were many who said that mandates would lead to worker exits, Skilled Nursing News in great reporting summarizes initial research data that found that "Nursing home vaccine mandate-Induced staff exodus largely unfounded." Link to their article that reports on the non exodus and the possibility that booster requirements may be next.
To bookend this issue with a podcast we offer an astute analysis of some big health care business news. Of all the writing and podcasting on Amazon's acquisition of One Medical, we believe one of best reviews of the why and what next is found in the linked The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway "No Mercy / No Malice: Prime Health."
From the hazy summer Culver City afternoons seen through office windows, this is Revitalize for Aug. 4, 2022.
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Revitalize: The week in health-care news you need
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Why Do Some People Keep Getting COVID? (with Eric Topol). With BA.5 infecting and reinfecting people around the world, Andy wants to know why some people keep getting COVID while others seemingly never contract the virus. Apart from your daily safety decisions, it may have to do with your genetics, gut microbiome, and defense proteins called interferons. Physician and scientist Eric Topol breaks down these theories for Andy as they discuss BA.5’s severity compared to earlier versions of Omicron and what variant could come next.
How the omicron subvariant BA.5 became a master of disguise – and what it means for the current COVID-19 surge.
This Covid summer is nothing like the last one. Boosters are on the horizon, but cases are way up—and have been for months.
U.S. declares monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency. The Biden administration declared the ongoing monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency on Thursday, a move that comes amid growing case counts and widening concern over the virus.
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How Democrats plan to overhaul taxes, climate spending, and health care before the midterms. Manchin’s new deal is giving Biden’s agenda another chance.
Remarks by President Biden on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
Nursing home vaccine mandate-Induced staff exodus largely unfounded as the skilled nursing sector looks back at a year and a half of vaccination efforts, data has shown that mandates at the federal and state level – specifically those without a test-out option – were an effective policy tool to increase rates without contributing meaningfully to worker shortages.
No Mercy/No Malice: Prime Health.
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Jerry Seelig, CEO
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