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| Old Mission Damn and Mission Trails Regional Park (Taken 1.9.2021) |
Tonight we dropped Nova off at my mom's for a sleepover and I'm riddled by anxiety over it. We haven't really been anywhere, so I'm not concerned at all that Nova could give anything to my parents, but I think my whole psyche has just completely shifted. I understand how and why people become shut-ins. When we leave the house, I can't wait to get back home, completely wash my hands and face and change out of my clothes that have been out in the world. It's not good and it's not healthy but at least I'm recognizing it and I think letting her stay there so she doesn't have to endure the planned excavator breaking up the lot next door and removing our trees is a first step. And we'll be going to the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park this week, too, so maybe I'll see shining examples of people actually masked up and can at least temper these feelings that the world outside of my home is insane and scary. It all could just be my lady functions talking, too. Maybe all I need is chocolate.
While we were at my parents' house, it was a little bit sad lamenting family and friends lost to the pandemic. Nobody immediately close to us has died though we are aware of distant friends, but the lamenting was more about family and friends who have completely signed on to the virus as a hoax, the election was stolen, the revolution is still yet to come, and a "real" inauguration will happen on March 4. Uncles, godfathers, cousins, siblings that you just can't believe were educated people that believe all of this bullshit. It really is so sad and scary and a total mindfuck if you think about it too hard. But it's also why I've fully embraced my cocoon. Since the kid is gone for her first sleepover since March, me and Darren will be living it up Speakeasy style tonight so I'll sign off and expect that Monday is going to be a day full of briefings and news. Stay safe out there!
- COVID-19:
- Sequencing Data of North American SARS-CoV-2 Isolates Shows Widespread Complex Variants - medRxiv (1.29.2021)
Based on the increase in the proportion of variant viruses being sampled and some empirical evidence in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Ohio, these variants are likely to lead to increased transmission of SARS-CoV-2 across North America in the coming months. - UNC Dashboard of SARS-CoV-2 Variants
- UK Variant B1.1.7 aka R52L
- Brazilian B 1.1.248 aka P.1 aka E484K
- South African B 1.351 aka N501Y.V2
- California L452R
- COVID-19 variants found in UK, Brazil now detected in Bay Area - KGO-TV (1.29.2021)
- SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Associated with High School Wrestling Tournaments — Florida, December 2020–January 2021 - MMWR (1.26.2021)
- ‘Our top headache’: How data collection is posing new challenges in the Covid-19 vaccination effort - STAT News (1.29.2021)
- Politics:
- Trump officials actively lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall - STAT News (1.31.2021)
The previously unreported lobbying efforts underscore that even after the T**** administration spent billions helping drug makers develop Covid-19 vaccines, it not only dismissed states’ concerns about the help they would need to roll them out, but actively undermined their efforts to press Congress to get the funding they needed. - News:
- 2 dead in massive California storms that took out portion of Highway 1 - CBS News (1.30.2021)
- Trump parts with impeachment lawyers a week before trial - AP News (1.30.2021)
- Myanmar military seizes power, detains elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi - Reuters (1.31.2021)
- Top U.S. diplomat Blinken calls on Myanmar military leaders to release Suu Kyi, others - Reuters (1.31.2021)
- Other Reading/Watching:
- Banning White Supremacy Isn’t Censorship, It’s Accountability. Claiming that deplatforming racists violates First Amendment rights shows a distorted understanding of how speech, race, and power work online. - Wired (1.31.2021)
- The "Historians" That Believe We're Currently Living In The Year 1724 - iflScience (1.27.2021)
- Questions for Media Briefings:
- Newsom: Are there any plans for the state to stand up antigen testing in order to increase statewide uptake?
- Newsom/Ghaly & Fletcher/Wooten: Is it a concern that testing has dropped dramatically from our November and December peaks?
- Federal/State/Local: Why haven't we ramped up sequencing of Sars-CoV-2 samples to numbers more in line with recommendation of 5% of all samples?
- Federal: Will the public get a readout on specific companies and/or products compelled by Defense Production Act?
- Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 1/31/2021 6:22pm):
- 102,944, 487 Known Cases
- 2,227,568 Known Deaths
- US COVID-19 Stats
- (JHU)
- 26,185,362 Cases
- 441,319 Deaths
- (COVID Tracking Project):
- 118,211 New Cases/25,816,099 Known Cases (4.1%+ Change over 7 Days)
- 2,055 New Deaths/432,175 Known Deaths
- 95,013 Current COVID-19 Hospitalizations
- 18,968 Currently COVID-19 patients in ICU
- 6,291 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%
- 18,974 New Cases/3,243,348 Total Cases (0.6% increase)
- 481 New Deaths/ 40,697 Total Deaths (1.2% increase)
- 7.4% 14-day test positivity rate
- 15,676 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-448 patients, -2.9% from prior day)
- 4,047 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-56 patients, -1.4% from prior day)
- 1,194 ICU beds available (+10 from prior day)
- San Diego County
- Free Testing Sites and Schedule in San Diego
- VaccinationSuperstationSD
- Vaccination Dashboard
- VIDEO: First North County Vaccination Super Station Opens
- State Data:
- Southern California ICU Bed Availability: 0%
- 2,128 New Cases/236,765 Total Cases
- 32 Deaths/2,603 Total Deaths
- 67.7 cases/100k population (Assessed on 1/26. Unadjusted Case Rate)
- 12.6% Test Positivity (Assessed on 1/26)
- 16.7% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 1/26)
- 1,352 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (-23 patients, -1.7% from prior day)
- 377 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (-10 patients, -2.6% from prior day)
- 162 ICU beds available (+7 from prior day)
- County Data:
- 1,274 New Cases/238,042 Total Cases
- 16 New Daily Deaths/2,619 Total Deaths
- 497,600 Doses Shipped/320,643 Doses Administered
- 7% Daily Test Positivity/10.5% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/8.8% Test Positivity (14-day average)
- 49.6 cases/100k population (Assessed on 1/26. Adjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.)
- 91% Case Investigation
- -5.4%% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (1,309 patients. -14% increase over 30 days)
- 15% ICU Capacity (377 patients. +1% increase over 30 days)
- 47 Staffed ICU Beds Available
- 10 New/56 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
- Universities:
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