CoViD-19: It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over | Dire Circumstances In India | US Acknowledges Armenian Genocide |

The last time we did a San Diego River Cleanup (Taken 1.11.2020)

I found this article about how India was beating COVID from February 17th and it makes me incredibly sad and also really mad. "'India suffered through a lot and because it suffered through a lot, it's reached the other shore now,' said Ramanan Laxminarayan, an epidemiologist at the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, a research firm based in Washington, D.C. and New Delhi. 'I don't see the prospect of a second wave in India. If it does happen, it will likely be a modest one.'"

There've been a lot of really bad takes on the pandemic, including my own, but so many have been really, really bad. Like deadly bad. I cannot imagine where we would be if things had gone differently in November, and India is paying a heavy toll because of their leader's negligence and irresponsibility.  

All this to wrap back around because a friend of mine asked me when I thought San Diego would get to the Yellow Tier. Obviously I'm not a scientist, doctor, epidemiologist or whatever, but my answer was that I think we're more likely to get out of the tier system when it is set to sunsets on June 15 because I don't envision, as more things open, that we can get below 2% positivity. I think that's okay because as we get vaccinated, we won't necessarily see high symptomatic infection, but I don't think COVID is going away. And hearing our shithead former mayor grandstanding and now that other awful, horrible person, who let's not forget, was responsible for killing a woman due to a car collision, launching a campaign for governor and I just can't even imagine where our state would be if we had been under their leadership over the past year and a half. Newsom certainly made mistakes along the way, but even so, I think we can acknowledge where he got it right. We can't let down now, even those of us who are fully vaccinated. Now if we can just open up to 12-15 year olds and get the County to expand vaccinations to a few 24 hour or nighttime locations, we may be able to get it done faster. Stay safe out there. 

• COVID-19:
• 'Distancing isn't helping you': Indoor COVID-19 exposure risk same at 6, 60 feet, MIT researcher says - Becker's Hospital Review (4.23.21)
  "What our analysis continues to show is that many spaces that have been shut down in fact don't need to be," Mr. Bazant said. "Oftentimes, the space is large enough, the ventilation is good enough, the amount of time people spend together is such that those spaces can be safely operated even at full capacity, and the scientific support for reduced capacity in those spaces is really not very good."  
• A Vaccine Can Be Bad for a Person but Awesome for All People. The safety pause in giving the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine is up for debate again—a battle in a Secret War of Denominators and risk-benefit philosophies. - Wired (4.23.21)
• Experts predict U.S. COVID-19 cases will dip in summer but surge in winter. Masks and vaccines could make a big difference in stopping a winter surge. - Science News (4.23.21)
• India:
• India's COVID-19 surge becomes more grim - CIDRAP (4.23.21)
• The Guardian view on Modi’s mistakes: a pandemic that is out of control. The Indian prime minister’s overconfidence lies behind the country’s disastrous Covid-19 response - The Guardian (4.23.21)
• Politics: 
• Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life - The Washington Post viaThe Seattle Times (4.24.21)
• The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved - AP News (4.23.21)
• White House: 
• Statement by President Joe Biden on Armenian Remembrance Day (4.24.21)
  we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring
• News:
• Governor Newsom Issues Proclamation Declaring Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide. Governor Gavin Newsom today issued a proclamation declaring April 24, 2021 as “A Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide” in the State of California. - (4.24.21)
• 1 verdict, then 6 police killings across America in 24 hours - AP News (4.23.21)
• Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 4.24.21 8:20pm):
• 146,110,536 Known Cases
• 3,096,693 Known Deaths
• US COVID-19 Stats 
• CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
• JHU
• 32,044,974 Cases
• 571,920 Deaths
• CDC Data Tracker:
• +62,579 New Cases/31,795,248 Known Cases 
• +860 New Deaths/568,237 Known Deaths
• 290,685,655 Doses Delivered/225,640,460 Doses Administered
• Moderna 123,421,200 delivered/98,778,973 administered/38,712,697 Fully Vaccinated
• Pfizer 149,623,305 delivered/118,628,496 administered/46,329,237 Fully Vaccinated
• Janssen 17,641,150 delivered/8,058,239 administered/7,993,389 Fully Vaccinated
• California COVID-19 Stats:
• State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
• Vaccination progress dashboard
• Aggregate California ICU Bed Availability: 32.8%
• R-effective: 0.92
• 27,843,725 Doses Delivered/27,843,725 Doses Administered
• 11,343,236 Fully Vaccinated/6,459,656 Partially Vaccinated
• 1,229 New Cases/3,627,885 Total Cases (4.new cases/100k)
• 49 New Deaths/ 60,135 Total Deaths (0.1 new deaths/100k)
• 1.4% 7-day test positivity rate
• 2,113 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (+18 patients, +0.9% from prior day)
• 428 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-18 patients, -4.2% from prior day)
• 2,196 ICU beds available (-50 from prior day)
• San Diego County 
• Free Testing Sites and Schedule in San Diego
• VaccinationSuperstationSD
• Vaccination Dashboard
• San Diego County Of Education School Reopening Dashboard
• State Data:
• Southern California ICU Bed Availability: 35.5%
• R-effective: 0.93
• -816 New Cases/275,097 Total Cases (Negative Cases Bases on Eliminating Duplications)
• 0 Deaths/3,684 Total Deaths
• 6.4 cases/100k population (Assessed on 4/20. Unadjusted Case Rate)
• 2.4% Test Positivity (Assessed on 4/20)
• 3.0% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 4/20)
• 197 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (+5 patients, +2.6% from prior day)
• 46 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (-6 patients, -11.5% from prior day
• 246 ICU beds available (-22 from prior day)
• County Data:
• 155 New Cases/275,251 Total Cases 
• 4 New Daily Deaths/3,688 Total Deaths
• 2,652,855 Doses Received/2,490,177 Doses Administered
• 1,367,175 Partially Vaccinated/904,478 Fully Vaccinated
• 1% Daily Test Positivity/2.4% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/1.8% Test Positivity (14-day average)
• 6.1 cases/100k population (Assessed on 4/20. Adjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.) 
• 98% Case Investigation 
• +2.4% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (171 patients. -4% over 30 days, 19% over 14 days)
• 32% ICU Capacity (47 patients. -32% over 30 days. -11% over 14 days)
• 44 Staffed ICU Beds Available
• 3 New/22 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
• Universities:
• SDSU COVID-19, UCSD COVID-19, USD COVID-19, CSU San Marcos, PLNU