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Not complaining, yet our curators earned their keep this week; we had so many topics and so many more great articles to choose from. We have to lead with what is best summarized in the title to an Atlantic Podcast: “The Sun Belt Spike: It’s March all over again.” Unfortunately, it is March all over again both in and out of the Sunbelt and, in particular, California.  

This week, the Curators use the second block to look at resident care and safety challenges that continue in skilled nursing as Texas becomes the hotspot. We also look at the current and future financial challenges to your local nursing home and the the skilled nursing industry.

This is Revitalize for July 15, 2020:
Revitalize : The week in health-care news you need
Covid facts and news from leading newspapers, industry reports, and CMS:
One of our daily must-read health care and political reporting sites, CalMatters brings us a just before the re-lockdown look at Governor Newsom’s most difficult last few weeks, “ A grim tally : Newsom puts brave face on California’s COVID-19 surge.” 

We link to a brilliant article in the Atlantic by Dr. Robert M. Wachter a professor and chair of the department of medicine at UCSF, who finds that in California “ Vigilance had a shelf life. ”   

Of the many California re-closing articles we turned to Axios and their review. Axios , started by Politico's founders, is a daily read as is Vox . Over the past few weeks, Politico has been doing great reporting on the pandemic in the U.S.–and world-wide. 

Returning to the Atlantic for answers to the question: COVID-19 cases are rising, so why are deaths flatlining?”   

We realize that we have some readers who are on the front lines; we offer a link to a superb white paper/handbook from the NEJM Catalyst Collection: "Covid-19: Managing the Surge" We encourage you to download the paper and subscribe to Catalyst .

We offer a break from the reading in the form of a podcast the aforementioned Atlantic piece “The Sun Belt spike: It’s March all over again.”   
 Resident care–safety and financial challenges that continue in skilled nursing:


In-depth reporting from the WSJ: Covid-19 Cases Jump in Sunbelt Nursing Homes Current surge that has mostly infected the young now shows signs of reaching more-vulnerable elderly


And another piece from McKnight : SNF industry in a challenging state as occupancy falls ; Medicaid revenue up

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