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Hi everyone, this is John Mandrula from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology and this is this week in

Cardiology for May 29th, 2020.

This week COVID, nursing homes, EBM, ventricular tachocardion hydroxychloroquine, and remdesophir.

First, a brief update on the numbers.

When I recorded last week, there were 1.6 million cases in the US and today

there are 1.75 million. The rate of growth of 1.08X was not changed much from last week. The US deaths last week were 96,000 and today 102,000.

The rate of rise of deaths declined from 1.12 x to 1.06 x this week.

That's now about six weeks with the rates of cases and deaths on a plateau.

Again, this is looking like the new normal. The question, though, for the next

month or so is whether opening up will lead to a change in the slope of the death rates. A brief note from home, we had a small surge of

COVID patients in recent days here in our medium-sized city. It was easily handled by the hospitals which are completely ready with plenty of

excess capacity. The notable feature of this surge was that it was all from nursing homes.

This got me looking into a bit and I learned how hard from nursing

looking into a bit and I learned how hard it is for nursing facilities to protect against pathogens.

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