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This week, a new source provides us both in print and video a review of the Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Please link to Johns Hopkins' Covid-19 Data in Motion: Wednesday, April 13. A bit of good news is found in the Washington Post’s Experts express cautious optimism about the latest covid variant.

Ready to travel outside the U.S.? The New York Times' reports in “I’m a U.S. citizen. Where in the world can I go?”that “for Americans eager to resume international travel, here are the countries that currently allow U.S. citizens to enter, though there may be restrictions, including vaccine requirements.”  

Packing already? We link to our summary of Canadian and European Data:

  • An average of 3,883 cases per day were reported in Canada in the last week. Cases have decreased by 43 percent from the average two weeks ago. Deaths have decreased by 42 percent.
  • An average of 166,858 cases per day were reported in Germany in the last week. Cases have decreased by 25 percent from the average two weeks ago. Deaths have increased by 28 percent.
  • An average of 38,425 cases per day were reported in the United Kingdom in the last week. Cases have decreased by 53 percent from the average two weeks ago. Deaths have increased by 45 percent.
  • An average of 132,107 cases per day were reported in France in the last week. Cases have decreased by 1 percent from the average two weeks ago. Deaths have increased by 8 percent.
  • An average of 62,679 cases per day were reported in Italy in the last week. Cases have decreased by 13 percent from the average two weeks ago. Deaths have decreased by 3 percent.
  • An average of 6,976 cases per day were reported in Spain in the last week. Cases have decreased by 62 percent from the average two weeks ago. Deaths have decreased by 10 percent.
 
Is Germany a possibility? Clubbing in Berlin, Dresden music festivals, and wandering forests, are what your curators would do, and now we would add a visit to A German state is last in almost everything. But it’s No. 1 in vaccines.” The New York Times reports and we link to a story on Bremen — Germany’s smallest state — managed its vaccination campaign better than any other place in Germany.”

Getting on a plane to get anywhere will still mean masking, we chose CNBC to offer the breaking news that Biden administration extends transportation mask mandate for 15 more days.”

Providers and practitioners, particularly those of us who have worked in rural and safety net settings know the value of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants. More on their expanding role in health care and the constant and we argue often irrational effort to limit their scope of practice is found in AXIOS: “Turf wars heat up after pandemic blurred provider treatment lines.”

Our friends at STATNews report that 20 years ago, a landmark report spotlighted systemic racism in medicine. Why has so little changed? The nation hasn’t made much progress on health equity. These leaders forged ahead anyway.

Our last article this week asks “Is this what endemic disease looks like?” Please link to this great New York Times interactive article that brought us in with the following: “For months, some American and European leaders have foretold that the coronavirus would soon become endemic. Covid-19 would resolve into a disease that we learn to live with. According to several governors, it nearly has. But we are still in the acute phase of the pandemic, and what endemic Covid might look like remains a mystery. Endemic diseases can take many forms, and we do not know yet where this two-year-old disease will fall among them.”

An agreement to post podcast promoted by both the Revitalize Real World of Practice Curators and the Revitalize Oxbridge Ivy League Intellectual Curators has netted us, as you would expect, two very different podcasts of the week. Firstly we turn to Fresh Air for “Healing and heartbreak in a Chicago ER,” for an interview with Veteran ER doctor Thomas Fisher, whose “new book describes his experiences in the first year of the Covid pandemic treating patients on Chicago's South Side.” Second, the always interesting and often controversial Andrew Sullivan’s podcast The Dishcast offers us “Nicholas Christakis on Covid and friendship.” Christakis, is a Medical Doctor and for many years “Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale, where he directs the Human Nature Lab and co-directs the Yale Institute for Network Science.” Sullivan and he “talk Covid, plagues, and friendship as a virtue.” This pod offers a brilliant look at the history of plagues and pandemics and is well worth your time.

Both your publishers are back in our Culver City offices and cafes to bring you Revitalize for April 14, 2022:
Revitalize: The week in health-care news you need
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Experts express cautious optimism about the latest covid variant.
 
I’m a U.S. citizen. Where in the world can I go? For Americans eager to resume international travel, here are the countries that currently allow U.S. citizens to enter, though there may be restrictions, including vaccine requirements.

A German State Is Last in Almost Everything. But It’s No. 1 in Vaccines. Bremen — Germany’s smallest state — managed its vaccination campaign better than any other place in Germany. It succeeded by activating community networks.
 
Biden administration extends transportation mask mandate for 15 more days.

AXIOS
Turf wars heat up after pandemic blurred provider treatment lines.

20 years ago, a landmark report spotlighted systemic racism in medicine. Why has so little changed? The nation hasn’t made much progress on health equity. These leaders forged ahead anyway. The U.S. hasn’t made much progress on health equity. These leaders forged ahead anyway.
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Is this what endemic disease looks like?

Healing and heartbreak in a Chicago ER. Veteran ER doctor Thomas Fisher's new book describes his experiences in the first year of the Covid pandemic treating patients on Chicago's South Side. He never had enough time or resources for his needy patients before the pandemic, but 2020 brought COVID and a wave of gun violence that stressed patients, doctors and staff in new ways. His new book is The Emergency.

Nicholas Christakis on Covid and friendship. He is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale, where he directs the Human Nature Lab and co-directs the Yale Institute for Network Science. His latest book is "Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live," and also check out "Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society." We talk Covid, plagues, and friendship as a virtue.
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