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| I Love This Gorilla (Taken 2.24.2021) |
Today was a much better day around here. I had a morning call with my music venue pals with SDIVA and Darren chippered up a lot. He made me a great lunch of shrimp & mac salad and after watching Jen's media briefing, we went to the San Diego Zoo. It was a little crowded since we didn't arrive as late in the afternoon as usual, but I attempted to use some of the information I got from the Tropical Photography video I watched last night, to mixed results.
I watched some news and the County Media Briefing and the County Town Hall when we got home, and between those and a quick scan of my socials, there are a lot of crazy hot takes out there. So here I am with my own.
I think there's a strong Venn diagram overlap of people complaining about slow vaccine rollouts and people who complain that they don't get tickets to sold out shows. Is it 4th grade we learn about supply and demand? Perhaps some of us should review, because holy shit! This is a GLOBAL pandemic. Our country failed in response in EVERY POSSIBLE WAY for all of 2020. Thankfully science moved forward with barely any of our cooperation and they found vaccines! And they have to manufacture them! And factories have to manufacture the vials and the needles and the pipettes and virtually nobody was ready for that because of the old covidiot in chief and now we're a month into this administration and there are still supply chain problems, and cold chain problems, and weather problems, and technology problems, and equity problems, but calm. down. man. We're all gonna get shots in our arms. Schools are going to open, and at least here, it's gonna be done safely. And little Johnny Quarterback will get his football season and you can look 30 years down the road and blame his CTE on the vaccine and not the fact that you let him play high school football and everything is going to be just fine. Ugh.
And to Alexis Rivas hounding Fletcher about 2% of vaccines going to non-County residents. Fletch stumbled a little but I think the answer you were fishing for is that people are coming from Tijuana to get them. This is because anyone who works in healthcare in the county, even if they live in Mexico, can be vaccinated here. Same goes for American nationals or dual-citizen residents who are 65+. But nice try.
So yeah. Next tier is starting on Saturday. For half a million people. Calm the eff down and wait your turn. In the meantime, stay safe out there.
- COVID-19:
- Vaccinations To Open to Teachers, Law Enforcement, Food Workers on Saturday - County News Center (2.24.21)
- California coronavirus strain may be more infectious—and lethal - Science Mag (2.23.21)
- FDA says single-dose shot from J&J prevents severe COVID - AP News (2.24.21)
- J&J's vaccine is safe, FDA says; California variant more contagious, early research shows — 7 COVID-19 updates - Becker's Hospital Review (2.24.21)
- Biden Administration To Deliver 25 Million Masks To Health Centers And Food Banks - NPR/kpbs (2.24.21)
- News:
- CouncilMember Joe LaCava was the only person who voted no on the STVR rules that passed in Tuesday's council meeting. Read why he dissented and the amendments he would like to see to the ordinance. This item will come back up for a final vote in October and isn't set to go into effect until summer 2022.
- Federal Judge Says California Can Enforce Net Neutrality Law - kpbs/AP News (2.23.21)
- Other Reading:
- Chula Vista Wildlife Refuge Builds Custom Wetsuit To Help Sea Turtle Regain Its Buoyancy - KPBS (2.23.21)
- What Texas Teaches Us About Good Governance - NRDC (2.23.2021)
The extreme cold snap and the disaster it brought to the state is a reminder of the importance of good governance in a modern society—and the danger we court when we pursue policies untethered to the public interest. - Press Briefing with Jen Psaki, Sameera Fazili, and Peter Harrell:
- FACT SHEET: Securing America’s Critical Supply Chains
- FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces New Actions to Deliver Masks to Communities Hit Hard by the Pandemic
- Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains
- Executive Order on the Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions
- A Proclamation on Revoking Proclamation 10014
- Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency Concerning the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic
- Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership
- Press Briefing from Tuesday
- Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 2/24/21 9:24pm):
- 112,553,181 Known Cases
- 2,497,406 Known Deaths
- US COVID-19 Stats
- CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
- (JHU)
- 28,334,981 Cases
- 505,808 Deaths
- (COVID Tracking Project):
- 73,258 New Cases/28,075,173 Known Cases (1.7%+ Change over 7 Days)
- 2,447 New Deaths/495,070 Known Deaths
- 54,118 Current COVID-19 Hospitalizations
- 11,026 Currently COVID-19 patients in ICU
- 3,685 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: 20.9%
- R-effective: 0.62
- 5,303 New Cases/3,455,361 Total Cases (0.2% increase)
- 314 New Deaths/49,877 Total Deaths (0.6% increase)
- 3.2% 14-day test positivity rate
- 6,764 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-144 patients, -2.1% from prior day)
- 1,842 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-56 patients, -3.0% from prior day)
- 1,734 ICU beds available (-127 from prior day)
- San Diego County Media Briefing:
- Considerable progress but must stay vigilant with distancing, masking, etc.
- Schools planning reopening, but have to get to red tier for truly good progress
- Youth Sports can resume practices, competitive play once we get 14 cases per 100k (hopefully next week)
- Vaccinations:
- 783,000 vaccines
- Currently eligible: healthcare personnel, long term care facility staff and residents, 65+
- Next group eligible starting Saturday: Emergency Services, Education & Childcare, Food & Agriculture. This group includes about half a million people so it will take time. People must be patient.
- Teachers will get Vaccines through VEBA. County allocating 20% for teachers/staff. Prioritize open or opening schools and by hardest hit communities. This will be a closed system, your school/district will reach out to you.
- Other teachers: daycare, higher ed, etc, can still use other county sites.
- Each sector will have different lead agency:
- Scripps: Law Enforcement
- SDCOE: TK-12 only
- San Diego County Fire: Farm Workers Only
- San Diego County
- Free Testing Sites and Schedule in San Diego
- VaccinationSuperstationSD
- Vaccination Dashboard
- State Data:
- Southern California ICU Bed Availability: 19.5%
- R-effective: 0.66
- 454 New Cases/257,802 Total Cases
- 29 Deaths/3,218 Total Deaths
- 16.6 cases/100k population (Assessed on 2/23. Unadjusted Case Rate)
- 5.0% Test Positivity (Assessed on 2/23)
- 7.4% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 2/23)
- 631 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (-1 patients, -0.2% from prior day)
- 184 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (-11 patients, -5.6% from prior day)
- 222 ICU beds available (-19 from prior day)
- County Data:
- San Diego County Update - County News Center
- County of San Diego Influenza Watch, 2/24/2021 (699 Cases This Season)
- 658 New Cases/258,463 Total Cases
- 12 New Daily Deaths/3,230 Total Deaths
- 828,825 Doses Shipped/777,210 Doses Administered
- 4% Daily Test Positivity/4.7% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/4.6% Test Positivity (14-day average)
- 15 cases/100k population (Assessed on 2/23. Adjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.)
- 93% Case Investigation
- -10% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (575 patients. -60% decrease over 30 days)
- 29% ICU Capacity (182 patients. -55% decrease over 30 days)
- 48 Staffed ICU Beds Available
- 10 New/29 Community Outbreaks (7-day)/188 Active Community Outbreaks
- Universities:
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