Welcome to the New Hampshire Resilience System and the New Hampshire RAC Executive Team Working Group

 

Dear New Hampshire Resilient American Communities (RAC) Executive Team colleagues, 

 

Welcome to the New Hampshire Resilience System.  You are now a member of the  New Hampshire RAC Executive Team working group in the New Hampshire Resilience System.  If you have not received notices that you are now registered in the New Hampshire Resilience System and the New Hampshire RAC Executive Team (NH RAC ET) working group please let me know at Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com.  

 

I would encourage you to send a greeting message of some meaning to all the other NH RAC ET members by sending an email message like my following message to you at:

 

 

You can also just reply to this this email and other emails from the group when the email address <newhampshire-rac-et@m.resiliencesystem.org> is used in the To:, Cc:, or Bc of your email. 

 

My message to you:

 

It appears that there may be serious problems with the CDC data being provided regarding New Hampshire’s vaccination rates, and potentially other COVID, data.  The following statement is in the place where we would normally see a graph of the vaccination data in the <covidactionnow.org> website.  I am assuming that this a temporary glitch.  It states,

 

"We have received user reports and press articles (example <https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2021-11-04/cdc-covid-booster-nh-data>) with concerns that the CDC-provided vaccine data is incorrectly including booster shots as 1st-dose shots. We are reaching out to the CDC for clarification. In the meantime, accurate vaccine data is not available."

 

 

New Hampshire’s COVID cases (assumed now to be mostly Omicron variant infections) are apparently peaking and may be still significant but in decline during the next several weeks.  This can also be observed at:

 

 

New Hampshire’s ICUs are still in the critical category with “85%” ICU bed occupancy, which may mean that New Hampshire hospitals are still overwhelmed as they have been for weeks as they have gone in and out of critical care standards for a dangerously long period of time. This will likely continue to compromise quality of care and continuity of care for weeks more lagging behind the COVID case peak, but will likely decline in overwhelming impact on health system resilience if managed well in February, March, and April of 2022.  Deaths and ICU cases appear to potentially be declining already under the increases in Omicron cases versus the Delta hospitalization peak in late December / early January. However, current pandemic peak conditions may have long-term impacts on health system human resources in New Hampshire and in other areas of the United States, if not carefully managed,.

 

Counterpoints?   What do you see as points of intervention by New Hampshire RAC that can relieve some of this burden of disease and gaps now and during the next COVID variant wave within the health system components affecting the resilience and regeneration of New Hampshire households and communities?

 

Mike

 

Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H. 

 

Coordinator

Resilient American Communities (RAC) COVID-19 Initiative

Global Health Response and Resilience Initiative 

Alliance for Global Resilience and Regeneration 

 

Executive Director 

Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.

 

Chairman 

Oviar Global Resilience Systems, Inc.