Wednesday, December 09, 2020

CoViD-19 San Diego County Expands Grant Eligibility | Local Hospitals At 6% Staffed ICU Available | US Reports 3,000 Deaths In One Day

Pics with the fam at The Old Globe's Dr. Seuss Tree (Taken 11.23.2020)

One thing I remembered last night that I wanted to mention yesterday was that in one day, more than 500 people were admitted to California hospitals with COVID-19. And while everyone is bickering about what sectors are the greatest vectors for transmission, yesterday's COVID-19 Watch should be concerning because 52.9% of new cases in the past two weeks are listed as "no potential community exposure setting reported," which I've said before is either misremembering, willful denial, or straight up lying. And the people who are reporting potential exposures, ranged from 1 to 14 settings visited.  

Today the US passed 3,000 deaths in one day, but apparently we're all cool with that. Except the LA County Health Officer, who was in tears at her media briefing, announcing 75 county deaths, their highest one-day number yet. 

For us, that meant another day of staying home. Me and Nova finished making our wreaths outside and enjoyed the sunset. I will need to do a Costco run soon, but I put it off tonight so we could watch The Grinch musical on NBC. I thoroughly enjoyed it, perhaps especially appreciative of the broadcast because we aren't in the financial demo to have ever seen it at The Old Globe. I've got some Christmas lights I've committed to putting on the tree tonight, so I'm gonna wrap it up, but hope everyone is doing okay out there. 


  • Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 8:28pm 12/9/2020):
    • 68,863,052 Known Cases
    • 1,568,959 Known Deaths
  • US COVID-19 Stats (COVID Tracking Project):
    • 211,027 New Cases/15,142,845 Known Cases
    • 3,054 New Deaths/280,254 Confirmed and Probable Deaths
    • 106,699 Current Hospitalizations
    • 20,922 Currently in ICU
    • 7,624 Currently on ventilator
  • California COVID-19 Stats:
    • 30,851 New Cases/1,420,558 Total Cases (2.2% increase)
    • 196 New Deaths/20,243 Total Deaths (1% increase)
    • 8.8% 14-day test positivity rate
    • 11,965 Hospitalizations 
    • 2,627 ICU hospitalized in CA
    • 1,566 ICU beds available
  • San Diego County Media Briefing
    • COVID-19 is widespread. Area hospitals could run out of ICU space. Holidays are approaching. Vaccines are coming, but "we can't wait for the cavalry to arrive."
    • Expanded eligibility/sectors for County grants for small business.
    • Regional stay-at-home order is meant to limit interactions of non-household units.
    • Limit interactions because you love your loved ones and want to protect them.
    • State has relented on playgrounds; playgrounds will stay open. Obligation is on parents/caretakers to limit interactions with non-household members. Go, play safe and responsibly, go home. 
    • See hospitalizations/projections by county at UCSD COVID Readi.
    • Diane Hansen, CEO Palomar Health
      • FMS 202 Beds set up are still ready to go
      • 50 nurses ready-to-go with a week's notice 
      • Trigger for use of beds hasn't hit 
      • Hospitals have capacity at the moment, can move from 48 to 110 ICU beds if needed but not staffing
    • Media Questions:
      • Hunter Sowards at KUSI is still a stupid fucking idiot
      • Hospitals are able to adjust and adapt but only for a short time, not a sustained time
      • Hospitalizations and ICUs are at about the same level as a typical year, but for influenza. The difference is that with flu, you can get a vaccine, take Tamiflu, and be better and back to work in a week. With COVID-19, illness can be 14 days minimum. "Beds don't take care of patients, health care workers do."
      • Hoping not to get to the point where ICU beds run out
      • San Diego has 20% ICU capacity available at the moment, but only 6% staffed/available
      • Normal flu season is 3-4 weeks. Cannot sustain months on end of current numbers. 
      • County added 30 case investigators last week, hoping to add 100 more. Interviews can take several hours per case. One investigator may only do 4-6 cases per day. 
      • Strip club injunction update: The hearing is coming up. Voted 3-2 to appeal if county loses ruling and will continue to advocate that strip clubs are non-essential and should not be opened when there's a stay-at-home order and during a global pandemic. 
      • The hope is with stay-at-home order, we do not overwhelm hospital systems and ICU beds
      • Time sensitive procedures orders haven't changed. Up to health systems and medical professionals. If county reaches or approaches 100% capacity, County will work collaboratively with health systems. 
      • County isn't worried about anti-vax people because number is only about 20% and most of those just don't think there's enough research/time that vaccine was created, and as we see people getting vaccinated in other countries and across the US, confidence in vaccines will (hopefully) improve.  
    • San Diego County State Data:
      • Southern California ICU Bed Availability: 9.0%
      • 1,276 New Cases/95,447 Total Cases
      • 26 Deaths/1,088 Total Deaths
      • 32.9 cases/100k population (Based on week ending 12/1, Assessed on 12/8. Unadjusted Case Rate)
      • 1.5% Test Positivity/8.4% County calculations (Assessed on 12/1.)
      • 13.2% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 12/8)
      • 933 hospitalized patients
      • 235 ICU hospitalized patients
      • 195 ICU beds available
    • County Data:
      • COVID-19 Vaccine: Who is Getting It First? and COVID Update - County News Center
      • San Diego County Influenza Watch
      • County is currently hitting 5 triggers: High adjusted case rate, high community outbreaks, increasing hospitalizations, high testing positivity, low case investigation.
      • 2,104 New Cases/97,549 Total Cases 
      • 15 New Daily Deaths/1,103 Total Deaths
      • 8% Daily Test Positivity/9.4% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/7.4% Test Positivity (14-day average) 
      • 27.0 cases/100k population (Assessed on 12/8. Unadjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.) 
      • Case Investigation is 53% (under 70% goal)
      • Increasing Day Over Day Hospitalizations 11% (over 10% trigger. 196% increase over 30 days)
      • ICU Capacity 20% (142% increase over 30 days)
      • 6 New/67 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
        • Business 26
        • Restaurant/bar 1
        • Retail 4
        • Restaurant 1
        • Faith-based agency 2
        • Government 5
        • Daycare/preschool 6
        • Healthcare 5
        • Emergency Services 3
        • Food/Bev Processing 4
        • Higher Ed 1
        • tk-12 school 1
        • Warehouse/Distribution 3
        • Gym 1
        • Hair Salon/Barber 1
        • Hotel/Resort/Spa 2
        • Private Residences 1
  • Universities:
  • COVID-19:
  • Politics/News/Other Reading:

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