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We once again employ Worldometers for our comparative data introduction and encourage you to take a look. Sadly, the numbers illustrate increases in cases and deaths in Italy and the UK; French cases increased in prior weeks and stay at levels higher than in the summer. Tragically, over the past week, the U.S. experienced significant increases in daily new cases and deaths. On Oct. 6, 2020 in the U.S. there were 43,660 new cases and 7,722,746 total cases): 790 new deaths and the death total has reached 215,822. In comparison, in Italy, there were 2,667 new cases (an approximate doubling in the increase in “day of reported cases” and 330,263 total cases) and 28 deaths (36,030 total); in France, 10,489 new cases (634,763 total cases) and 66 deaths (32,365 total); in Germany – 2,,642 new cases (307,119 total cases) and 19 deaths (9,635 total deaths) – the United Kingdom had 14,452 new cases (an approximate three-times increase since last week and 530,113 total cases), 76 deaths, increasing their Covid death total to 42,445. For more on vastly different Covid-19 responses, we recommend G-Zero World’s “The Graphic Truth: Two different pandemics – EU vs. U.S.”
When we scheduled this issue, the President was back in the White House, with many questions unanswered and no commitment by the White House to employ contact tracing for the prior week’s multiple super spreader events. We trust that our readers will be informed on these events that must be viewed through combined political and scientific lenses, what we do offer is the StatNews article that reminds us that “Covid is all about privilege; Trump’s treatment underscores vast inequalities in access to care.” StatNews reports on the state of combatting Covid-19 with a most important summary article: “The lesson from Trump catching Covid-19: With this virus, there are no magic bullets.” The final article in this section was on Curators’ nightstands for a few weeks, for that failing we apologize for the delay in linking a critical examination from Foreign Affairs of the data and politics that support the statement that “if the U.S. response deserves to be called a failure at the national level, the picture is more complicated in the 50 states. Certain U.S. states have brought their rates of infection under control, leveraging their own resources to compensate for federal ineffectiveness.”
In the final block, we find the work of Peter Hessler, staff writer at The New Yorker and this year a visiting professor in China. His Aug. 10 piece, “How China controlled the Coronavirus: Teaching and learning in Sichuan during the pandemic,” was linked in our Aug. 12 Revitalize; and for no other reason than it is one of the Curators’ favorites and you may have missed it, we offer it again. The upcoming issue of The New Yorker has Hessler reporting from the original Covid-19 hotspot Wuhan; please read this elegant and informative article: “Nine days in Wuhan, the ground zero of the Coronavirus pandemic.”
From the sunny-with-declining-air-quality Culver City, Washington, D.C., the U.S., European Capitals and Wuhan China, this is the Revitalize list for Oct. 7, 2020:
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Revitalize: The week in health-care news you need
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Covid is all about privilege:
Trump's treatment underscores vast inequalities in access to care. "Where one person would need to be in the hospital, another person can have the hospital come to them. That’s privilege,” said ICU physician @LaxSwamy.
There is one simple lesson the novel coronavirus keeps teaching but which seems extremely difficult to learn: There are no magic bullets against Covid-19.
One Virus, Two Americas:
How Federalism saved and doomed the United States.
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Teaching and learning in Sichuan during the pandemic.
Nine days in Wuhan, the ground zero of the Coronavirus pandemic:
There’s no other country where the pandemic’s effects have been so concentrated in a single city.
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