CoViD-19: SD Has 31 Staffed ICU Beds Available | This Is America | More Details Trickling In From Capitol Insurrection |

Black Footed Cat at San Diego Zoo Safari Park (taken 3.20.2020)

My days have pretty much consisted of a whole lot of reading, couching, sleeping, sitting outside at sunset, watching news clips on YouTube, and running interference between Ficus and Strawberry, and Strawberry and Kiwi. Tonight we took the dog for a walk through the neighborhood, but we are really doing our best to limit our interactions with the world, so I'm sorry I don't really have anything exciting to report. Besides hanging out in the speakeasy last night, things are pretty chill around here. COVID-19 is really no joke. There are only 31 staffed ICU beds available in our entire county and the stories of people dying are heartbreaking. I can't get the imagery out of my head of a nurse who said her whole ward is COVID patients who all look like they're drowning because they can't breathe. That's why it continues to be so infuriating to see businesses flouting the rules and fighting closures. We have to get these numbers down. Stay safe out there. Tomorrow should be more insanity as Congress attempts to move forward with impeachment. Can't hardly wait.  

• Politics/News:
• The DC Insurrection Lays Bare the Fiction of America. The actions of rioters showed a need to hold on to a vision of the country that’s at odds with reality. -Wired (1.8.2021)
• The Inaction of Capitol Police Was by Design. The spectacle of Wednesday’s tepid police response to riotous mobs shocked many. But the passivity is not some surprising anomaly—it is the status quo. -The Atlantic (1.8.2021)
• Capitol assault a more sinister attack than first appeared - AP News (1.9.2021)
• COVID-19:
• The importance of non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout - MedRXiv (1.9.2021)
  Our findings suggest that early relaxation of safe behaviours can jeopardize the benefits brought by the vaccine in the short term: a fast vaccine distribution and policies aimed at keeping high compliance of individual safe behaviours are key to mitigate disease resurgence.
• WHO director calls for easing of vaccine hurdles for developing nations - CIDRAP (1.8.2021)
• Most patients hospitalized for Covid-19 still have symptoms six months later, China study finds - STAT News (1.8.2021)
• Could new COVID variants undermine vaccines? Labs scramble to find out. Researchers race to determine why variants identified in Britain and South Africa spread so quickly and whether they’ll compromise vaccines.
• Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 1/10/2021 9:21pm):
• 90,279,044 Known Cases
• 1,934,784 Known Deaths
• US COVID-19 Stats 
• (JHU)
• 22,406,747 Cases
• 374,322 Deaths
• (COVID Tracking Project):
• 222,918 New Cases/22,124,929 Known Cases (8.3%+ Change over 7 Days)
• 1,999 New Deaths/365,597 Known Deaths
• 129,229 Current COVID-19 Hospitalizations
• 23,625 Currently COVID-19 patients in ICU
• 7,782 COVID-19 patients currently on ventilator
• California COVID-19 Stats:
• Aggregate California ICU Bed Availability: 
• 49,685 New Cases/2,670,962 Total Cases (+1.9% increase)
• 468 New Deaths/ 29,701 Total Deaths (1.6% increase)
• 13.7% 14-day test positivity rate
• 22,513 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-87 patients, -0.4% from prior day)
• 4,965 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (+26 patients, +0.5% from prior day)
• 1,159 ICU beds available (-14 from prior day)
• San Diego County 
• Free Testing Sites and Schedule in San Diego
• State Data:
• Southern California ICU Bed Availability: 0%
• 3,538 New Cases/188,598 Total Cases
• 53 Deaths/1,824 Total Deaths
• 65.9 cases/100k population (Assessed on 1/5. Unadjusted Case Rate)
• 13.3% Test Positivity (Assessed on 1/5)
• 19.0% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 1/5)
• 1,751 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (-12 patients, -0.7% from prior day)
• 410 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (-11 patients, -2.6% from prior day)
• 150 ICU beds available (-12 from prior day)
• County Data:
• 3,288 New Cases/191,888 Total Cases 
• 33 New Daily Deaths/1,867 Total Deaths
• 11% Daily Test Positivity/16.4% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/13.5% Test Positivity (14-day average)
• 53.4 cases/100k population (Assessed on 1/5. Adjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.) 
• 39% Case Investigation (under 70% goal)
• 8.9% Increasing Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (1,696 patients. 83% increase over 30 days)
• 16% ICU Available Capacity (399 patients. 60% increase over 30 days)
• Only 31 Staffed ICU Beds Are Currently Available in San Diego County
• 6 New/43 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
• Universities:
• SDSU COVID-19, UCSD COVID-19, USD COVID-19, CSU San Marcos, PLNU

This is definitely worth watching. Imagine being one of these female reporters covering the insurrection on Wednesday. What an absolutely amazing team of remarkable women.