CoViD-19: Vaccine Distribution Begins | Biden Presidency Confirmed By Electors | Covered California Deadline Extended | Pandemic Year 1: What Do We Know?

 

The crew at Sea World Holiday Preview (Taken 12.13.2019)

The unromantic side of pet ownership is that sometimes they get sick. I don't know what's going on with Fi but I ended up staying up all night so she could go outside every hour on the hour last night. That means that I stayed up all night until Darren and Nova were awake to take over. That gave me a lot of time for doomscrolling and perusing Nextdoor to see if anyone was talking about the eternal mentally disturbed screaming that happens in our alley almost nightly. Nobody was talking about that, but I did find a free couch that we got excited about, made contact with the giver who told me we could come by for it tonight, and when I reached out again at the time she said, she had given it away to someone else. Ugh.

I did finally get some sleep though, then had a little bit of a panic because I realized I still need to investigate my Covered California options. Fortunately they've extended the application deadline for January 1 coverage to December 30, and general open enrollment ends January 31. So I may actually delay and hope there's some sort of federal extension of CARES by then. 

There is something awesome about day-sleeping though. When you wake up, all the news has happened. The electoral college confirmed Biden's win, people gave their thoughts and prayers for the anniversary of Sandy Hook, vaccination distribution and inoculation began across the US, and according to the Johns Hopkins University dashboard at 8:28pm, the US is at currently at 300,477 deaths. (The COVID Tracking project is always a little behind the JHU dashboard.) Just another day in this eternal staycation. 

• Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 12/14, 7:26pm):
• 72,824,936 Known Cases
• 1,620,490 Known Deaths
• US COVID-19 Stats (COVID Tracking Project):
• 193,384 New Cases/16,339,404 Known Cases (10.1%+ Change over 7 Days)
• 1,358 New Deaths/292,404 Known Deaths
• 110,549 Current Hospitalizations
• 21,456 Currently in ICU
• 7,706 Currently on ventilator
• California COVID-19 Stats:
• 33,278 New Cases/1,585,044 Total Cases (2.1% increase)
• 77 New Deaths/21,046 Total Deaths (0.4% increase)
• 10.5% 14-day test positivity rate
• 14,578 Hospitalizations (+618 patients, +4.2%)
• 3,078 ICU hospitalized in CA (+141 patients, +4.6%)
• 1,424 ICU beds available (-20 from previous day)
• San Diego County Stats
• State Data:
• Southern California ICU Bed Availability: 2.7%
• 2,414 New Cases/107,372 Total Cases
• 11 Deaths/1,162 Total Deaths
• 32.9 cases/100k population (Based on week ending 12/1, Assessed on 12/8. Unadjusted Case Rate)
• 8.4% (County Calculations) 1.5% (State Calculation) Test Positivity (Assessed on 12/1.)
• 13.2% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 12/8)
• 1,034 hospitalized patients (-3 patients, -0.3%)
• 276 ICU hospitalized patients (+2, 0.7%)
• 179 ICU beds available (-14)
• County Data:
• San Diego County COVID-19 Update – 12-14-2020 - County News Center
• 28K COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Arriving in San Diego - County News Center
• San Diego is hitting 7 triggers: High adjusted case rate, high community outbreaks, COVID-19 syndromic increasing (7%), influenza like illness increasing (4%), low ICU Capacity 17%, high testing positivity 9%, low case investigation 42%
• 2,206 New Cases/109,578 Total Cases 
• 0 New Daily Deaths/1,162 Total Deaths
• 10% Daily Test Positivity/9.0% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/8.2% 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 42% (under 70% goal)
• Increasing Day Over Day Hospitalizations 8.1% (213% increase over 30 days)
• ICU Capacity 17% (under 20% Trigger. 155% increase over 30 days)
• 1 (12/13), 4 (12/12), 3 (12/11) New/46 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
• Business 18
• Restaurant/bar 2
• Retail 1
• Restaurant 2
• Faith-based Setting 6
• Government 2
• Daycare/preschool 6
• Healthcare 2
• Construction 1
• Food/Bev Processing 2
• tk-12 school 2
• Warehouse/Distribution 1
• Hair Salon/Barber 1
• Universities:
• SDSU COVID-19, UCSD COVID-19, USD COVID-19, CSU San Marcos, PLNU
• COVID-19:
• The coronavirus at 1: A year into the pandemic, what scientists know about how it spreads, infects, and sickens - STAT News (12.14.2020)
• 'Healing Is Coming': US Starts Vaccinating People Against COVID-19 - KPBS (12.14.2020)
• Vaccine comes too late for the 300,000 US dead - AP News (12.13.2020)
• Charley Pride, Country Music's First Major Black Star, Dies At 86 - KPBS (12.12.2020)
• Strip club still open while California vows legal action - AP News (12.13.2020)
• Tribal casinos remain open as Southern California adjusts to COVID-19 stay-at-home order - Desert Sun (11.12.2020)
• Politics/News/Other Reading:
• Luxury Ghost Towns: The pandemic proved cities have far too many ultraexpensive apartments. They shouldn’t forget it. - Slate (12.14.2020)
• California Wildfires Killed 106 People Two Years Ago. Researchers Say the Smoke Killed 3,652 - KQED (12.11.2020)
• 'Democracy prevailed,' Biden says after Electoral College confirms his win - Reuters (12.14.2020)