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We post this week’s examination of Covid-19 new cases and death on the day after the U.S. exceeded 700,000 cases and 200,000 deaths. For this issue, we employed data from Worldometers, far more in-depth yet most accessible data sets, we encourage you to take a look. Sadly, on Sept. 20, 2020 in the U.S. there were 33,344 new cases (704,768 total cases): 294 deaths and the total has reached 202,118. In comparison, in Italy there were 1,350 new cases (299,506 total cases) and 17 deaths (35,724 total); in France, 5,298 new cases (458,061 total cases) and 53 deaths (30,950 total) in Germany – 1,520 new cases (247,997 total cases) and seven deaths (9,477 total deaths) – the United Kingdom had 4,368 new cases (398,625 total cases), 11 deaths, increasing their Covid death total to 41,788. The New Yorker posted this week “Two Hundred Thousand Americans Are Dead," please use the link or AUDM for this detailed look at our current American tragedy, which offers us at its close the Victor Frankl words of hope: “everybody in the midst of suffering is given a chance to bear testimony of the human potential at its best, which is to turn a personal tragedy into a human triumph.”
Your curators, their spouses, their children, and we would argue our practice today and in the future have benefited from the human triumphs of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We link from The Washington Post the analysis that demands all of our attention: “The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg injects fresh uncertainty into the future of the Affordable Care Act.”
Our DVRs allow the curators’ Sunday to begin with multiple Sunday shows, our current favorite is Fareed Zakaria’s GPS on CNN. This Sunday started with an episode drawing from Dr. Zakaria’s recent Washington Post Opinion piece “What sets apart countries that successfully handled the pandemic? Failure.” Additionally, Zakaria draws from and we post articles from Foreign Affairs and Nature Magazine that tell us how “hubris” and a false sense of “exceptionalism” contributed to failures in the Covid-19 response.
Our curators in their reading have reviewed multiple articles and videos that highlight how Asian nations' initial failings to respond to SARS and the steps they took to combat the virus during and after that pandemic led to an effective and rapid response to Covid-19. Please follow the link to Foreign Affairs “An Asian Pandemic Success Story” and the Sept. 13, 2020 GPS, the whole show and Zakaria’s interview with the former Vice President of Taiwan, an epidemiologist; a link to that interview and the show’s transcript is found below.
From Culver City, across the country, Taipei, and the world here is Revitalize for Sept. 26, 2020:
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Revitalize: The week in health-care news you need
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What have we learned during the coronavirus pandemic—and what have we refused to learn?
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Exceptionalism Is Killing American
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An Asian Pandemic Success Story
CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS broadcast for Sept. 13, 2020
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Jerry Seelig, CEO
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