CoViD-19 Stats | RIP RBG | CDC Reverses Stance on Asymptomatic Testing

 

(Taken 1.16.2020)

Today is a very dark day for the United States of America. The next 45 days and 4 months are going to be scary and more stressful than anything we've already experienced this year. So many of us are feeling the immediate loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and know what the consequences can be moving into the next weeks and months. I don't really have much to say today, but today's stats and tributes are after the jump.

• In Memory of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020) - ACLU (9.18.2020)
• Do not fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat until after the 2021 inauguration - MoveOn
  
  
  
• California COVID-19 Stats:
• 3,630 New Cases/769,831 Total Cases (0.5% increase)
• 91 New Deaths/14,812 Total Deaths (0.6% increase)
• 3.4% 14-day test positivity rate
• San Diego County Stats
• State Data:
• 174 New Cases/43,621 Total Cases
• 6 Deaths/754 Total Deaths
• 8.1 cases/100k population (Based on week ending 9/5, Assessed on 9/15. State uses Adjusted Case Rate Using Linear Adjustment)
• 4.5% Test Positivity (Based on week ending 9/5, Assessed on 9/15)
• County Data:
• 388 New Cases/44,007 Total Cases 
• 3 New Daily Deaths/757 Total Deaths
• 4% Daily Test Positivity/4.4% 7-day Test Positivity with 7-day lag/4.0% Test Positivity (14-day average)
• 7.9 cases/100k population (Based on week ending 9/5, As assessed on 9/15. County is reporting unadjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons)
• Case Investigation is 98%
• 3 New/22 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
• SDSU COVID-19:
• As of Sept. 18 at 6 p.m., 753 confirmed cases and 32 probable cases have been reported for a total of 785 cases.
• COVID-19:
• CDC reverses course on testing for asymptomatic people who had Covid-19 contact: The agency is backtracking on controversial recommendations it made last month, reportedly over the advice of agency scientists. - Politico (9.18.2020)
• C.D.C. Testing Guidance Was Published Against Scientists’ Objections: A controversial guideline saying people without Covid-19 symptoms didn’t need to get tested for the virus came from H.H.S. officials and skipped the C.D.C.’s scientific review process. - New York Times (9.17.2020)
• Newsom Signs Laws To Protect Workers From Coronavirus Exposure - KPBS (9.17.2020)
• Indicators for Dynamic School Decision-Making - CDC (9.15.2020)
• Other News:
• The San Diego Foundation Launches New Parks Report and Increases Access to Nature with $344,990 in Grants - San Diego Foundation (9.17.2020)