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| Today I fell in love with a Cockatoo at San Diego Zoo Safari Park (11.18.2020) |
Nova has short online days on Wednesdays, and I got to sleep early enough last night that this morning we all had brunch together and made plans to go to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in the afternoon. Before I left, I created the subject of this post: US Passes 250,000 Deaths. At the time, we were still hovering around 247k. Sure as shit, I got a notification around 2pm, when we arrived there, that we had hit that number nationally. It's so grim.
I also get lost in numbers sometimes. If 184k people tested positive yesterday across the country, and you look at San Diego's analysis that 6.4% of cases end up in the hospital, that's nearly 12,000 new hospitalizations to come just from one day alone. If you use California's number which is over 12%, that's almost 25,000 hospitalizations nationally just based on yesterday's test results. When you hear doctors and nurses and experts in a panic, this is why.
We did end up at the Safari Park for a few hours and it was very sparsely attended so it was easy to avoid people. I fell in love with a cockatoo I never knew was behind the coffee stand and we pretty much covered every area of the park except the world gardens. I'm looking forward to the holiday celebrations there and at the San Diego Zoo, though we may find ourselves driving up and turning right back around to drive home if crowds get too intense. Me and Darren have plans to meet in the speakeasy tonight, so I'm gonna wrap it up and will be back tomorrow.
- California COVID-19 Stats:
- 9,811 New Cases/1,047,789 Total Cases (0.9% increase)
- 61 New Deaths/18,360 Total Deaths (0.3% increase)
- 4.8% 14-day test positivity rate
- San Diego County Stats
- State Data:
- 718 New Cases/66,321 Total Cases
- 7 Deaths/933 Total Deaths
- 12.1 cases/100k population (Based on week ending 11/10, Assessed on 11/16. Unadjusted Case Rate Using Linear Adjustment)
- 2.6% Test Positivity (Based on week ending 11/10, Assessed on 11/16)
- 7.2% Health Equity Positivity (Based on week ending 11/10, Assessed on 11/16)
- County Data:
- San Diego County COVID-19 Update – 11-18-2020 - County News Center
- San Diego County Influenza Watch
- San Diego has reported 10,139 new cases since November 1. (Not onset but tests reported.) At the current rate of hospitalization, 6.4%, 649 of those people will get hospitalized, typically within 3 weeks of illness onset.
- 922 New Cases/67,241 Total Cases
- 12 New Daily Deaths/945 Total Deaths
- 6% Daily Test Positivity/5.3% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/4.7% Test Positivity (14-day average)
- 10.7 cases/100k population (Based on week ending 11/10, Assessed on 11/16. Unadjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.)
- Case Investigation is 95%
- Hospitalizations are up 12.2% (above 10% trigger. Measured as an average of the past 3 days and compared to the average of the 3 days prior)
- 7 New/38 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
- restaurant/bar 9
- business 9
- restaurant 2
- grocery 2
- food processing 3
- tk-12 school 1
- daycare 3
- healthcare 1
- government 1
- retail 4
- warehouse/distribution 1
- Emergency Services 2
- Universities:
- COVID-19:
- Larry Brilliant Says We’ll Beat Covid—After We Go Through Hell. The epidemiologist calls it "the best of times and the worst of times," as good news on vaccines and testing coincides with a terrifying rise in cases. - Wired (11.18.2020)
- FDA Authorizes First COVID-19 Test for Self-Testing at Home - FDA (11.17.2020)
- Federal Efforts Accelerate Vaccine and Therapeutic Development, but More Transparency Needed on Emergency Use Authorizations - GAO (11.17.2020)
- More than 3 million people in U.S. estimated to be contagious with the coronavirus - The Washington Post (11.18.2020)
- Politics:
- Biden-Voting Counties Equal 70% Of The U.S. Economy - Statista (11.17.2020)
- Streetlight Spy Cameras Have Led to a Massive Privacy Backlash in San Diego. The city council unanimously voted to pass one of the strongest privacy regulations in the country after a campaign against 'smart streetlights' - Vice (11.18.2020)
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