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Good morning, here is our POST-ELECTION SPECIAL EDITION presented on the day that we estimate a significant number of readers are celebrating and most of you are taking a well-deserved break from work. We also assume many are about to grab a cup of coffee and read emails, have memos to read or write, timesheets to fill out or other weekend morning catch-up tasks. Therefore, we are sparing you the Covid-19 numbers for today and offering The New York Times daily analysis, which offered on Saturday afternoon the headline:“Covid-19 live updates: Biden team readies plan to fight the virus, now surging at record levels.” The summary daily offers us state outbreak maps and summary stories on a wide variety of Covid-19 topics. Axios, building on earlier this week reporting by The New York Times offers us: "Defense Department sends medical teams to El Paso as COVID-19 cases surge."

Today, the curators found out at 8.45 a.m. PST that we do have a President Elect and therefore we can now focus on the Biden-Harris agenda to fight Covid-19 and other health and long-term care issues/challenges found in your practice and documented in your newspaper/journals and even this newsletter. To start, The Atlantic provides the sobering reminder Biden faces a nation divided, not only by politics but as much or more by pressing public health issues.

We then turn to the question – did the Dems guess wrong or right on making COVID-19 their key issue in this election? The answer may be yes as to top of ticket, and yes and no as to the rest of ballot – that dichotomy leads us and now you to the newly created Revitalize Prize for Irony. The Independent' reports that Trump did well in counties with high coronavirus death tolls, according to polling data. Healthcare Dive examines how healthcare helped Democrats usher in 2018's blue wave but failed to deliver similar margins this week.

Gzero World says it all when it comes to the health of the nation: "No honeymoon for Joe Biden." And while a honeymoon phase is unlikely or short-lived the transition teams will earn their salaries in building and implementing a Covid-19 strategy and concurrently starting to rebuild the health and long-term care delivery system. Once you have your coffee, get a head start on all of this by reading:
  • Fierce Healthcare gives us three ways a Biden White House could impact healthcare.
  • Politico details Biden plans for a Covid task force during transition.
  • Foreign Affairs' reminder that the election will decide how the United States reaches herd immunity—through immunization or mass infection.
  • Then Democratic presidential nominee and now President-Elect Joe Biden's $775 billion plan to expand community-based senior services and his wish list for nursing home reform in the wake of COVID-19. Skilled Nursing News gives us his blueprint for reform.

After multiple cups of coffee or perhaps a mimosa pitcher we think you will also want to engage in "Back home from the honeymoon – reality check." Politico's veteran healthcare reporter Dan Diamond documents the already-in-progress regime change at HHS, the key healthcare governmental agency where: “At least 27 political appointees have exited the embattled Health and Human Services Department since the start of the Covid-19 crisis in February," and senior leaders are bracing for dozens more officials to depart swiftly if President Donald Trump loses re-election ... Such a wave of departures would leave only a shell staff shepherding the department through a uniquely challenging winter of coronavirus outbreaks and drug and vaccine authorizations until Inauguration Day on Jan. 20. We then conclude with a Bloomberg story on the surge in hospital bankruptcies, or as we say in the virtual offices of our corporate partners, the next surge to be followed by an even worse surge.

Drawing upon newsrooms across the world the curators broke from their could-this really-be-over street parties in Culver City, California, Chester County, PA, and Chelsea, MI, to bring you on Nov. 8, 2020 the first-ever-Sunday-morning-special edition of Revitalize;
Revitalize: The week in health-care news you need
Face the bitter truth: We are two countries, and neither of them is going to be conquered or disappear anytime soon.

Defense Department sends medics to El Paso as cases surge.

Trump did well in counties with high coronavirus death tolls, according to polling data.

Healthcare helped Democrats usher in 2018's blue wave. This year it hasn't delivered a decisive win.

No honeymoon for Joe Biden; what he can do and what challenges he faces.

Four ways a Biden White House could impact healthcare.

Biden plans for Covid task force during transition.
The election will decide how the United States reaches herd immunity—through immunization or mass infection.

Biden's blueprint for nursing home reform post Covid-19: It did not have to be this bad.

'A mass exodus': HHS staffers jumping ship amid pandemic, fears of Trump loss.

Bloomberg Industry Group's Health Law & Business News: Hospital bankruptcy surge looms as virus rages, stimulus lapses.
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