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Comparative Covid-19 data for Jan. 26:
In the U.S., there were 148,353 new cases (approximately 30,000 less than reported in last week’s issue ) with a total of 26,011,314 cases; on Jan. 26 there were 4,051 deaths (a 70 percent increase in deaths over data reported in last week’s issue) and the U.S. death total has reached 435,460.   

  • The United Kingdom, on Jan. 26, had 20,089 new cases (for the second straight week an approximate 13,000 fewer new cases than reported in last week’s issue) and 3,689,746 total cases. There were 1,601 new deaths Jan. 26 (21 fewer deaths more than last week), increasing the UK’s Covid death total to 100,162. The UK remains fifth (behind the U.S., India, Brazil, and Russia) on the worldwide total cases list. 
  • In Italy, On Jan. 26, there were 10,593 new cases and on that day Italy had 541 deaths (an approximate 1 percent increase in new cases and 11 percent decrease in deaths over last week’s issue); there are to date 2,459,956 total cases and 86,422 total Covid-19 deaths.  
  • In France, on Jan. 26, there were 22,086 new cases, (a 3 percent increase over last week’s reporting) with a total of 3,079,943 total cases. There were 417 new deaths on Jan. 19 (24 fewer deaths than reported in last week’s issue) with a total of 74,106 Covid-19 deaths in France. 
  • In Germany, On Jan. 26, there were 9,716 new cases; there have been 2,164,068 total cases. There were 968 deaths (54,930 total Covid-19 deaths in Germany). In comparison to data reported last week, Germany had approximately 27 percent fewer cases and 18 percent fewer new deaths.
  • Canada remains 22nd on the worldwide total cases list. Canada had 4,011 new cases; 758 fewer than reported in last week’s issue; 757,022 total cases. On Jan. 19, Canada had 165 deaths (19 more than last week) for a total of 19,043 deaths.  

Do dig deeper into the U.S. data and see what is happening in particular states and settings, please jump to The New York Times’ excellent presentation of the data. 

We have for the most part hit your inbox on Wednesday, for a variety of reasons, we change our publishing date to Thursday. If we have a breaking news story or special, we’ll delay the night’s dinner and hit send if needs must.

We offer two ways to get the briefing you need on the Biden Covid-19 battle plan. Dipping in morning news and talk shows or relaxing in the evening, we are hearing and reading those articles and podcasts that put all the pieces together. So you have links to a New Yorker just published essay or a 70 minute podcast, do one or dip in and out of both. The long form New Yorker essay by Dhruv Khullar M.D.: “Biden’s pandemic plan might just work – The coronavirus is devastating America, and getting worse – but it’s not too late for a concerted effort to save countless lives.” And remember via Audm this becomes a podcast. Also, Ezra Klein has joined The New York Times and has a podcast, the first of which is “The Man With the Plan to Beat the Pandemic: Vivek Murthy, M.D.” Dr. Murthy is the former – and now nominated to be next – Surgeon General and takes us inside Biden’s plan to beat Covid-19.” You can listen or read the transcript (in any instance we very much encourage you to get a long yet worth the time look at the Biden Administration's Covid-19 plan from the doctor who was a key actor in the Biden Covid-19 transition team and will soon be Surgeon General). Tee it up on the phone, in the car, and hear about what Biden inherited and what they will do to fight the pandemic.

On the big-picture-perhaps some-good-news front we link from The Atlantic: “The pandemic is finally softening. Will that last? With vaccination racing the spread of COVID-19 variants, America could be at a tipping point.”  

Vaccines–what is needed to get the shot the last miles and jab it into your arm? We link to Barbara Feder Ostrov of CalMatters elegant, depressing, and most needed “‘Tedious, stressful’: Why older Californians are still struggling to get vaccine.” Two days after his press conference offering an update on vaccines and vaccinations, StatNews summarizes Biden’s announcement and promise that the “U.S. will have enough Covid-19 vaccines for 300 million Americans by end of summer.” An article each from The Atlantic and The New York Times on the much touted Israeli vaccination program also is recommended. 

Your publisher and your editor have within the last week been vaccinated; for those of you who are doing the most important and life-saving effort to convince family, friends, colleagues, and workers to get the shot we link CMS’s concise and clear “Benefits of getting a Covid-19 vaccine.”

Big policy is the penultimate story found in CNN’s “Biden plans to reopen Obamacare enrollment.”

We have written and been interviewed about the economic threats to the Skilled Nursing Home industry and over the past two-months we have seen many stories on the difficulty facilities are having in getting new and returning residents. So please link to Skilled Nursing News’ senior reporter Maggie Flynn for an insightful and data-driven look at SNFs’ financial and other operational problems in “48 states saw nursing home occupancy of 80 percent or worse as 2021 dawned–With census as low as 56 percent.”

Editing from Culver City, where we take a break most days at 1 p.m. local to see and hear the fact driven-honest press conferences and briefings on the Pandemic with reports from around the world, this is Revitalize for Jan. 28, 2021.
Revitalize: The week in health-care news you need
Biden’s pandemic plan might just work. The coronavirus is devastating America, and getting worse—but it’s not too late for a concerted effort to save countless lives.


The Pandemic Is Finally Softening. Will That Last? With vaccination racing the spread of Covid-19 variants, America could be at a tipping point.

‘Tedious, stressful’: Why older Californians are still struggling to get vaccine.
 
U.S. will have enough Covid-19 vaccines for 300 million Americans by end of summer, Biden says. Biden plans to purchase enough vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna to fully vaccinate 300 million Americans by the end of summer 2021, the administration said Tuesday.
Israel has vaccinated six times more of its population than the United States. Can others learn from its success?

Israel’s early vaccine data: Initial studies show a significant drop in infections and hospitalizations after just one dose.

Why get a Covid-19 vaccine?
 
Biden plans to reopen Obamacare enrollment.

48 states saw nursing home occupancy of 80 percent or worse as 2021 dawned – with census as low as 56 percent. SNFs are vaccinating residents and staff against Covid-19, with the hope of restoring routine visitation and broader opening.
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