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Greetings!
Hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend, and if opening us at our Monday drop, then please make the most of the closing day. Our delay was caused by a variety of work and wellness issues, yet we believe this issue will be well worth the wait.
This issue took a sudden content change on Tuesday, May 23 with the tragic shooting in Texas. The senseless death of students and teachers has been on our minds, our hearts, our screens; we believe that three lead articles offer context for this most American pandemic. The first article from Axios, “1 big thing: Guns have become the leading cause of death for American kids” is a concise presentation of the data on gun violence and the need to take action. Secondly, we turn to our often linked Katherine Wu at The Atlantic who goes in depth with ER doctor and Brown University Medical School Public Health professor Megan Ranny to ask and answer “Why violence demands not just policy solutions, but public-health ones - An ER Doctor’s ‘Third Way’ approach to the gun crisis are.” Dr. Ranny offered us a brilliant look at the impact of Covid on her ER on a prior post In the Bubble Podcast, her insights and recommendations are well worth your time. Our trio of articles concludes with a must read Editors’ Opinion from Scientific American: “The science is clear: Gun control saves lives.”
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The United States is averaging about 110,000 new cases each day, a roughly 30 percent increase over the last two weeks. Since many cases go uncounted in official reports, the true toll is higher than these figures show.
- Daily case reports are four times as high as they were in early April, but still a fraction of the numbers seen in January, when the initial Omicron surge was at its worst.
- Hospitalizations are also increasing, though they remain well below the peak levels seen during the winter. About 25,000 people are hospitalized with the virus nationwide, and about 11 percent of those patients are in intensive care units. In late January, more than 150,000 people were hospitalized with Covid-19 and more than 25,000 of them were in intensive care.
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The most recent uptick emerged first in the Northeast, where conditions now appear to be stabilizing. Though still high, case rates have started to level off or decline in New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island.
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Puerto Rico is reporting new infections at the highest rate in the country, though case levels there have started to level off in recent days. The territory’s recent hospitalization rate is higher than the national average, but lower than that of some Northeastern states.
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Infections and hospitalizations are increasing quickly across much of the South and Southwest. Average daily case reports have more than doubled in the past two weeks in Arizona, South Carolina and West Virginia.
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The United States recently surpassed one million total coronavirus deaths. New reported deaths remain at some of their lowest levels of the pandemic, with about 360 announced each day.
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“‘When will kids under five get Covid vaccines?' and other questions” from Scientific American is the first article in this section, we know that many of you have the answer to that question that is being asked by many of our readers.
"It's impossible to determine your personal Covid-19 risks and frustrating to try – but you can still take action" from The Conversation is well worth a read.
We turn to Long Covid, first with our podcast of the week The New York Times' The Daily Podcast: “A better understanding of Long Covid - Who does the condition affect, and how widespread is it?”
StatNews offers us a look at an important research study in “Large U.K. study links vaccination after Covid infection to lower odds of long Covid symptoms.”
Dr. Dhruv Khullar, one of the three New Yorker practicing doctor staff writers, offers us "Will the Coronavirus pandemic ever end? If Americans decide too soon that it is over, it could paradoxically drag on even longer.” A companion piece to Dr. Khullar's that further explores how long will the pandemic drag on was posted at The Atlantic as we went to press. We very much encourage to read Katherine Wu's "You Are Going to Get COVID Again … And Again … And Again ---Will the danger mount each time, or will it fade away?"
The penultimate topic takes us from Covid-19 to current research on a medical treatment that impacts many of our readers’ lives. The New Times linked article “A daily aspirin regimen may hurt more than help, experts warn.” We encourage you to employ the link to this article that reports that “Millions of Americans take aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke. Now, doctors are advising against it — especially for people over 70.”
We close with two articles on the importance of medical records and how your digital medical record has become for many companies a lucrative business. The first from Axios is “Language in medical records may be due for an update” and the second is from StatNews “How a complex web of businesses turned private health records from GE into a lucrative portrait of patients.” Your publishers have many years in all aspects of documenting patient care including participation in the transition from paper to electronic medical records. We very much encourage you to take the time to read these articles.
We electronically send Revitalize for May 30, 2022 from our closed-for-the-holiday Culver City headquarters where later in the day we will gather to grill 1/4 pound Hebrew National hot dogs, sausages, and veggie burgers and test our statins with Mayo based potato and macaroni salads. Hope you are having a great, very well deserved holiday weekend!
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Revitalize: The week in health-care news you need
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1 big thing: Guns have become the leading cause of death for American kids
Why violence demands not just policy solutions, but public-health ones: An ER doctor’s ‘Third Way’ approach to the gun crisis.
The science is clear: Gun control saves lives. By enacting simple laws that make guns safer and harder to get, we can prevent killings like the ones in Uvalde and Buffalo.
When will kids under five get Covid vaccines?' and other questions.
It's impossible to determine your personal Covid-19 risks and frustrating to try, but you can still take action.
A better understanding of long Covid. Who does the condition affect, and how widespread is it?
Large U.K. study links vaccination after Covid infection to lower odds of long Covid symptoms. A new, large U.K. study adds to the evidence linking vaccination after Covid infection to lower odds of long Covid symptoms.
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Will the Coronavirus Pandemic ever end? If Americans decide too soon that it is over, it could paradoxically drag on even longer. Twenty-seven months into the covid-19 pandemic, our defenses against the coronavirus seem at once stronger and more penetrable than ever.
You Are Going to Get COVID Again … And Again … And Again ---Will the danger mount each time, or will it fade away?
A daily aspirin regimen may hurt more than help, experts warn. Millions of Americans take aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke. Now, doctors are advising against it — especially for people over 70.
Language in medical records may be due for an update.
How a complex web of businesses turned private health records from GE into a lucrative portrait of patients. A months long STAT investigation shows how Quintiles and a constellation of other businesses took a GE Healthcare database and turned it into a far more valuable picture of the patient.
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Jerry Seelig, CEO
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