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This week we start with The New York Times "State of the Virus" summary and our summary of the key data. We follow closely with Ed Yong on the U.S.’s response to our lack of response to the approaching 1 million U.S Covid-19 deaths. Next, we share an analysis by The New York Times’ David Leonhardt as to the effectiveness of Covid protections. Stressed? Our Podcast of the week is here for you.
Should you wish to take a week off from both data, policy analysis, and stress therapy, then jump to the end where we promote two great panels.
- Virus activity continues to wane across the United States, with new case reports reaching their lowest levels since last summer.
- Coronavirus hospitalizations have fallen more than three-quarters from their January peak, to about 35,000 from more than 150,000. The number of patients in intensive care units has also plummeted.
- Around 1,400 deaths continue to be announced most days, well below the peak of the Omicron wave but still very high. More than 960,000 deaths have been attributed to Covid-19 in the United States.
- Fewer people are hospitalized with Covid-19, and fewer new cases are being announced each day, than in the weeks before the highly infectious Omicron variant became dominant in the United States.
- Every state is in far better shape than it was at the height of Omicron, and almost every state continues to see significant declines in daily case reports and hospitalizations.
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New case reports are down more than 70 percent in the last two weeks in South Carolina, Louisiana and Iowa. Those states have also seen hospitalizations decline at least 50 percent in that period.
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Two great Pulitzer Prize winning reporters ask and answer two key questions and we encourage your click. One of the top reporters on the pandemic, The Atlantic’s Ed Yong, writes "How did this many deaths become normal?" He reminds us that: “The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded Covid-19 deaths without the social reckoning that such a tragedy should provoke.” David Leonhard, columnist at The New York Times asks “Do Covid precautions work?"
We turn to ER Doctor Craig Spencer, who writes in The Atlantic, “The key distinction that helps clarify the path forward on the pandemic.” Dr. Spencer tells us that “We need to focus less on what individuals can do and more on what institutions can do.”
Reuters offers us “'A war for life of our child': Health crisis spills out of Ukraine conflict.” Please read this important article and also use the link directly to the World Health Organization, in which the organization “classed dealing with some of these conditions as its highest priority in its most recent report on the health impact of the Russian invasion.”
Our “policy-practice mess of the week” is on failings in surprised-billing rules that led to the StatNews article “A glaring gap in Congress’ surprise billing law leaves patients on the hook for pricey, out-of-network lab tests.”
“Let’s talk about burnout'' is the AXIOS TODAY podcast that offers Yale psychology professor Dr. Laurie Santos, who is the host of the hit podcast The Happiness Lab. Professor Santos tells us “it's time to take the signs of burnout seriously.”
Scroll down for two great meetings; both available on zoom, very reasonably priced, and offering CLE credits. On April 1, our colleague David Hoffman convenes at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law "When Worlds Collide: The Effects of Private Equity on Health Care." On April 8 and 9, our friend the neuroscientist and musician, Dr Narayan Sankaran, marshals his colleagues at the Science Ethics Groups at UC Berkeley and UCSF for the Science Ethics Policy Symposium, "From Plants to Privacy: Science Ethics for the Modern Era.”
From Culver City with reporting across the world, this is Revitalize for March 10, 2022:
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Revitalize: The week in health-care news you need
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How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal? The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded COVID-19 deaths without the social reckoning that such a tragedy should provoke. Why?
Do Covid precautions work? Yes, but they haven’t made a big difference. Daily life in red and blue America has continued to be quite different over the past few months. It’s a reflection of the partisan divide over Covid-19.
The key distinction that helps clarify the path forward on the pandemic. We need to focus less on what individuals can do and more on what institutions can do.
A war for life of our child': Health crisis spills out of Ukraine conflict. Alongside trauma injuries, the WHO has classed dealing with some of these conditions as its highest priority in its most recent report on the health impact of the Russian invasion.
A glaring gap in Congress’ surprise billing law leaves patients on the hook for pricey, out-of-network lab tests. Even though the lab was down the hall from his in-network doctor, it was still out-of-network. And Congress’s new law against surprise medical bills doesn’t fix the issue.
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Let's talk about burnout. Daily news of a horrific war in Europe, alongside two years of living and working through a deadly pandemic, has so many of us grieving and exhausted. Yale psychology professor Dr. Laurie Santos is the host of the hit podcast The Happiness Lab, and she says it's time to take the signs of burnout seriously.
On April 1, our colleague David Hoffman convenes at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law .
On April 8 and 9; the Science Ethics Groups at UC Berkeley and UCSF convene theScience Ethics Policy Symposium.
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