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| Lioness at San Diego Zoo Safari Park (Taken 6.28.2020) |
I am so looking forward to a snuggly cold and rainy weekend in San Diego. We need water from the sky so badly, I just wish that we had better ways to capture the runoff instead of the inevitability of having flooded streets and backed up storm drains. I hope my neighbors below don't learn that their apartment still floods. It would be nice to head up to the mountains but I don't think our van, even with chains, is up for it after mostly sitting unused for the past year.
COVID-19 has been busy the past couple days but it's flabbergasting that people are making so many demands when the administration has only been in office for like 48 hours. It is no question that vaccination distribution has been a total nightmare, but people trying to jump the line is just as much a problem as order and supply shortages. We know that the last administration chose not to order additional dosages when they had the chance, and it should certainly be investigated if they were intentionally sabotaging the next administration, and we also know that the two vaccines with EUA in the USA are limited in their ability to supply doses, especially when they have other contracts with other countries to honor, too.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to a quiet weekend and hope you're all staying safe out there. Our case numbers seem to be moving in the right direction, but today both the county and the state had the highest reported deaths of the pandemic, which shouldn't come as a surprise exactly 3 weeks out from New Year's Eve and 4 weeks out from Christmas. Keep wearing your masks (consider doubling up), stay out of indoor spaces like stores and other people's homes, and stay home when you can. Everyone keeps talking about the light at the end of the tunnel, but right now, we're still not even close.
- News:
- COVID Can't Kill the Casbah - NBC San Diego (1.21.2021)
- Appeals Court Overturns Injunction Tied to Strip Club Suit That Would've Reopened Restaurants - City News Service/NBC San Diego (1.22.2021)
- Politics:
- President Biden Takes Immediate Action to Support Working Families - IATSE (1.22.2021)
- Statement from President Biden and Vice President Harris on the 48th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade - WhiteHouse.gov (1.22.2021)
- More Presidential Actions and Executive Orders:
- Executive Order on Economic Relief Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce
- Schumer: Impeachment trial to begin week of Feb. 8 - AP News (1.22.2021)
- COVID-19:
- National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness
- As COVID Worsens, Here's What to Do to Protect Yourself Before You Get the Vax: Wear two masks, spend less time in the store, and keep your eyes on the prize. - Vice (1.22.2021)
- WHO platform for pharmaceutical firms unused since pandemic began. Exclusive: ‘pool’ to share Covid-19 information has received no contributions since May 2020 - The Guardian (1.22.2021)
- “Complete incompetence:” Biden team slams Trump’s COVID work. Biden Administration starts off with a flurry of orders, actions, and comprehensive plan. - ARS Technica (1.21.2021)
- ‘Tedious, stressful’: Why older Californians are still struggling to get vaccine - Cal Matters (1.22.2021)
- Risk related to the spread of new SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in the EU/EEA – first update - ECDC (1.21.2021)
VOC 202012/01 "UK Variant", 501Y.V2 "South Africa Variant" and variant P.1 "Brazilian Variant": Based on the new information, the risk associated with the introduction and community spread of variants of concern has been increased to high/very high and the options for response have been adjusted to the current situation. - Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Lineage - MMWR (1.22.2021)
- New COVID-19 variant defeats plasma treatment, may reduce vaccine efficacy - Reuters (1.20.21)
- A Year Ago I Asked: How Bad Could Covid Get? Now We Know. No one was calling it a pandemic yet, at least publicly. Then came more troubling evidence about transmission, as the US ignored warning signs. - Wired (1.22.2021)
- COVID-19 cases, new syndrome on the rise among children, especially Latino children - CalMatters (1.21.2021)
- Johns Hopkins EPI Update (1.22.2021):
- The US CDC reported 24.32 million total cases and 404,689 deaths. The US surpassed 400,000 cumulative deaths on January 19.
- 1 death to 50k- 55 days
- 50k to 100k- 33 days
- 100k to 150k- 63 days
- 150k to 200k- 55 days
- 200k to 250k- 58 days
- 250k to 300k- 25 days
- 300k to 350k- 20 days
- 350k to 400k- 16 days
- Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 1/22/2021 8:21pm):
- 98,157,700 Known Cases
- 2,106,690 Known Deaths
- US COVID-19 Stats
- (JHU)
- 24,818,781 Cases
- 414,004 Deaths
- (COVID Tracking Project):
- 188,983 New Cases/Known Cases (5.4%+ Change over 7 Days)
- 3,980 New Deaths/404,695 Known Deaths
- 116,264 Current COVID-19 Hospitalizations
- 22,008 Currently COVID-19 patients in ICU
- 7,236 COVID-19 patients currently on ventilator
- California COVID-19 Stats:
- State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
- Vaccination progress dashboard
- Aggregate California ICU Bed Availability: 0%
- 23,024 New Cases/3,062,068 Total Cases (0.8% increase)
- 764 New Deaths/35,768 Total Deaths (2.2% increase)
- 10.5% 14-day test positivity rate
- 19,855 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-553 patients, -2.8% from prior day)
- 4,718 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-28 patients, -0.6% from prior day)
- 1,095 ICU beds available (+65 from prior day)
- San Diego County
- Free Testing Sites and Schedule in San Diego
- VaccinationSuperstationSD
- Vaccination Dashboard
- State Data:
- Southern California ICU Bed Availability: 0%
- 1,176 New Cases/219,729 Total Cases
- 48 Deaths/2,222 Total Deaths
- 97.4 cases/100k population (Assessed on 1/19. Unadjusted Case Rate)
- 14.8% Test Positivity (Assessed on 1/19)
- 19.8% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 1/19)
- 1,605 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (-42 patients, -2.6% from prior day)
- 438 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (-13 patients, -2.9% from prior day)
- 165 ICU beds available (+11 from prior day)
- County Data:
- County Reports Record Number of COVID-19 Deaths - County News Center
- 2,847 New Cases/222,578 Total Cases
- 79 New Daily Deaths/2,301 Total Deaths
- 6% Daily Test Positivity/13.1% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/10.7% Test Positivity (14-day average)
- 60.6 cases/100k population (Assessed on 1/19. Adjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.)
- 67% Case Investigation (under 70% goal)
- -4.3% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (1,561 patients. 10% increase over 30 days)
- 10% ICU Capacity (430 patients. 21% increase over 30 days)
- 6 New/49 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
- Business 19
- Retail 1
- Restaurant 1
- Faith-based Setting 1
- Government 5
- Daycare/preschool 6
- Healthcare 2
- Construction 1
- Emergency Services 3
- tk-12 school 3
- Warehouse/Distribution 1
- Hotel/Resort/Spa 1
- Private Residences 1
- Comm-Based Org 1
- Universities:
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