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In and out of your and our virtual offices we believe that you, like we, are trying to plan and host a safe Thanksgiving gathering, therefore before the data, the best articles, and a select podcast we offer the first-ever Revitalize “public service link” to CNN‘s: “Don't rely on a negative test result to see your family for Thanksgiving.” Much of what you want and need to know about testing and creating a safe Thanksgiving is in the story.  

Now to the data, which illustrate the continued significant increase in cases and deaths daily and over the past week in the U.S. with a flattening of the curve in Europe. The enormity of this U.S. surge is illustrated in The New York Times daily ”Covid in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count.” These are terrible times in our battle with Covid-19; please click on the link and look at the data. 

You can, before a visit to the Times’ data or as soon as possible after, turn to the two recent posts by The Atlantic Monthly. Firstly, we offer Ed Yong whose cover story in The Atlantic’s September issue “How the pandemic defeated America” was linked a few weeks ago and and again today. Yong has become one of our leading journalists devoted to the pandemic, and this most recent and clickable title: “‘No one is listening to us’ – More people than ever are hospitalized with Covid-19. Health care workers can’t go on like this.” Yong warns that as we plan for the holidays, we must know that “health care workers do not have the luxury of looking away: They’re facing a third pandemic surge that is bigger and broader than the previous two. In the U.S, states now report more people in the hospital with Covid-19 than at any other point this year—and 40 percent more than just two weeks ago.”  Secondly, we turn to an effort to understand how we failed while others did far better in The Atlantic link to its contributing writer Uri Friedman. He brings a unique, clearly argued theory in “The pandemic is revealing a new form of national power – In the COVID-19 era, a country’s strength is determined not only by its military and economy, but also by its resilience.” Friedman states that if resilience is the building block that “united every country that has made the most progress in combating Covid-19 ... But the pandemic has shown that resilience comes in many different forms. It is, as The Atlantic’s Ed Yong has written, ‘about the mundane alchemy of doing ‘enough things right.’”  For both our readers who love political essays and those who need convincing, please read this brilliant article.  

On Nov. 16, 2020 in the U.S., there were 162,346 new cases, an increase of approximately 35,000 new cases from data reported for Nov. 9, there are 11,538,280 total cases. On Nov. 16, there were 740 deaths (a week ago on Nov. 9 there were 642 deaths) and the death total has reached 252,652. Most importantly, as reported by The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association: “As of Nov. 12, over 1 million children have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic.” 

  • In Italy there were 27,354 new cases (an approximate 2K increase from data reported for Nov. 9 ),1,205,881 total cases, and 504 deaths, a 35 percent increase from Nov. 9 (41,750 total deaths).  
  • In France, 9,406 new cases , an approximate 67 percent decrease over Nov. 9, France has of Nov 16 1,991,233 total cases. On the 16th there were 506 deaths, a 15 percent decrease over prior week and there have been a total of 45,054 deaths. 
  • In Germany where new cases were about 20 percent less and deaths 20 percent higher than data reported here last week; there were on Nov. 16, 14,582 new cases (817,256 total cases) and 199 deaths (12,891 total deaths). 
  • The United Kingdom had 21,363 new cases (approximately the same as Nov. 9) and 1,390,681 total cases, 213 deaths, a 10 percent increase over Nov. 9) increasing their Covid death total to 52,147.
  • India, with a total population of 1.38 billion, had approximately 25 percent fewer new cases and one less death than on Nov. 9 with 28,555 new cases (8,591,075 total cases) and 450 new deaths (130,559 total deaths).
  • Brazil had on Nov. 16, 13,647 new cases, an approximate 25 percent increase and 256 new deaths, an increase of 15 deaths (5,876,740 total cases and 166,067 total deaths).

As to “Why Europe is flattening the curve (and the U.S. isn’t),” the answer is found in Monday’s The New York Times' podcast The Daily, the title of which asks that question. The Daily team report is a must listen or read from Europe and Middle America that “As the coronavirus surged anew, the authorities on either side of the Atlantic took profoundly different approaches.”

After you read the great Ed Yong and his colleague Uri Friedman, which, may lead many of you to try to find a way to work “the mundane alchemy of doing enough things right” into your next email, employee memo, pleading, or daily staff meeting you will probably want to take a look at what can the President-elect and his transition team can do over the next two months to attack the pandemic and what are the roadblocks in his team’s path. We offer from CNN a story whose headline states it all” “Trump's failure to work with Biden is becoming more urgent as Covid spreads”  We then turn to the Economist for its look of what Biden’s team will do different, which includes using “his executive authority to create a Rooseveltian Pandemic Testing Board to compel companies to produce more tests, laboratory materials and personal protective equipment. He probably lacks the authority to impose a mask mandate nationwide, but would push states to do so.”  And we end with good news, a second vaccine has through Phase 3 clinical trials a success rate of over 90 percent, our friends at StatNews tell us all about it.  

We take a break in Culver City, Berkeley, CA, Chelsea, MI, Chester County, PA, Santa Fe, NM, Eugene, OR, and Wichita, KS, from planning the best-ever, yet smallest (yet Zooming) Thanksgiving dinner to bring you Revitalize for Nov. 18, 2020:
Revitalize: The week in health-care news you need
Don't rely on a negative test result to see your family for Thanksgiving.

Covid in the U.S.: See the latest map and case count.

Children and Covid-19: State-level data report:
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association are collaborating to collect and share all publicly available data from states on child COVID-19 cases.
As of Nov. 12, over 1 million children have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic. 

‘No one is listening to us;’
More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this.

The Pandemic is revealing a new form of national power:
In the COVID-19 era, a country’s strength is determined not only by its military and economy, but also by its resilience.
Why Europe is flattening the curve (and the U.S. isn't).

Trump's failure to work with Biden is becoming more urgent as Covid spreads.

What the Biden administration would do differently on Covid-19:
Mr. Biden has announced plans to take more serious federal action. He has named Ron Klain, who coordinated the Obama White House’s response to an Ebola outbreak in 2014, as chief-of-staff.

With strong data on two Covid-19 vaccines, we have more answers about the road ahead — and questions too.
Jerry Seelig, CEO
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