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Greetings!
Firstly, a most Merry Christmas and belated Happy Hanukkah to all of our readers. This has been a most difficult year, and so it ends with most of us unable to visit with family and friends to light candles, dine on the Feast of Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve, open presents, or, as many of our UK Commonwealth readers do, celebrate Boxing Day. We thank all of you who are working over the holiday weekend, on call, as well as the many of us who were absent from our families in years past providing care, public safety, and military service.
The curators and publishers intended to make this issue and the next a bit lighter and upbeat, but the demand for updates on the pandemic and sustained difficulty across healthcare facilities nationwide prevent no such easy optimism. Let us now offer the Revitalize combined Public Service and Therapeutic-Zen moment to both convince you not to travel so that things really might be better by linking The Atlantic’s: “Hang on for three more months – Some simple advice for anyone contemplating a holiday gathering: Wait until March.” We promise that next week we will provide a bit of respite from the pandemic and offer our best of the year in many categories including some “escape from all of this” reading and listening.”
Before we look at the data, let us link you to Slate’s “The Covid relief bill makes one big, risky bet – It’ll only be enough if the vaccination effort doesn’t blow it,” which through its links lets you see what is in the bill and through its usual great reporting summarizes the political and economic challenges to follow.
Since much TV and print on the new Covid-19 virus mutation that occurred in the UK the curators must offer from The New York Times: “The UK Coronavirus variant: What we know.”
This week's Coronavirus data summary is below and is followed by great articles and one podcast on how we got to this moment.
In the U.S. on Dec. 21, there were 200,109 new cases, an approximate 1,800 increase in new cases from data reported for Dec. 14. There are 18,473,716 cases; this is the second week in a row where we have had an increase of over 1.5 million total cases in seven days. There were 1,841 deaths (there were 1,621 deaths reported in one day the week before) and the U.S. death total has reached 326,772.
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In Italy, there were 10,782 new cases (the second week in a row to see about 1,800 fewer cases); making 1,964,054 total cases. Italy had 415 deaths, 76 fewer than the same day last week (with 69,214 total Covid-19 deaths).
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In France, 5,797 new cases , about 2,700 more cases than on Dec. 14. France had 2.479,151 total cases as of Dec. 21. There were 351 deaths on the 21st, 20 fewer deaths than Dec. 14, and there have been a total of 60,900 Covid-19 deaths.
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In Germany, 19,333 new cases were reported (approximately 800 more cases than Dec. 14 ), with 1,534,116 total cases. On Dec. 21, deaths increased by 52 to 533 over data reported here last week (27,297 total Covid-19 deaths).
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The United Kingdom had 33,364 new cases (approximately 13,000 more cases than Dec. 14 ) and 2,072,511 total cases. On Dec. 21, there were 215 deaths, 17 less than Dec. 14, increasing the U.K.’s Covid death total to 67,616.
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Canada, with a total population of 37,848,178, had, unfortunately, moved from 30th since we last reported to 26th on the worldwide total cases list. Canada had 7,519 new cases and 104 deaths for a total of 220,213 Covid-19 cases and 9,973 deaths.
We offer this sadly needed tool from The New York Times: How full are hospital I.C.U.s near you? Then a duet on how we got here from Kaiser Health News: “Many U.S. health experts underestimated the Coronavirus ... Until it was too late.” From Fresh Air, one of our best interviewers Terry Gross recently brought The Atlantic’s Ed Yong in to speak about a year’s worth of great reporting in the segment that reviews “what the vaccine’s rollout process will look like, where Covid research fell short, and what to expect for 2021.”
California and LA are now the hottest of hot spots, great reporting on what your curators are living through is found in The Atlantic's ”California Has Lost Control – The Golden State was in better shape than most of the country. Now the outbreak there is going from bad to worse.” And from The LA Times: “Supermarkets in L.A. County see unprecedented coronavirus infection rates.”
From the center of a Covid hotspot lockdown, we wish you all the comfort a couch can hold while we all wait for this newest wave to pass. We wish you all the healthiest holiday; from California, Michigan, and Pennsylvania to all points between, this is Revitalize for Dec. 23, 2020:
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Revitalize: The week in health-care news you need
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Hang on for three more months
Some simple advice for anyone contemplating a holiday gathering: Wait until March.
The Covid relief bill makes one big, risky bet: It’ll only be enough if the vaccination effort doesn’t blow it.
The UK Coronavirus variant: What we know. A newly identified variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus appears to be more contagious than established ones. Here’s what scientists know.
How full are hospital I.C.U.s near you?
Many U.S. health experts underestimated the Coronavirus – until it was too late.
Atlantic science writer Ed Yong says the COVID vaccination program will be the most complicated the U.S. has ever attempted: "It's going to be a slow process, and there are a lot of possible roadblocks." Yong talks about what the rollout process will be like, where Covid research fell short, and what to expect for 2021.
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Covid hospitalizations in California will break records.
California has lost control.
The Golden State was in better shape than most of the country. Now the outbreak there is going from bad to worse.
Supermarkets in L.A. County see unprecedented coronavirus infection rates. Grocery stores and other essential businesses have been hit hard by the coronavirus surge, further straining services that must stay open despite the stay-at-home order.
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Jerry Seelig, CEO
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