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| Cheetah at San Diego Zoo (Taken 2.18.2021) |
I still have a ton of email to get through tonight because Darren and I decided to spend the afternoon at the San Diego Zoo. It was such a nice day that it almost makes me feel guilty seeing all of these places freezing across the country, but we pay sunshine tax for a reason, right? I felt like I had to be close to the animals today because I was so heartbroken about the wildlife sanctuary in Texas that has so many helpless animal casualties from the cold.
We had a couple cool moments, like the tiger pacing right in front of us and almost 20 minutes with hippos Funani and Amahle with nobody else around. There's this amazing feeling when you make eye contact with animals that large and beautiful. We closed the day by the giraffe, and the month-old giraffe has already been booted from the nursery because another giraffe is about to give birth. Like, she literally had liquid coming out of her and was pacing and just waiting for it to come out. After, we grabbed burritos at Colima's and it was just what I needed.
I didn't watch my usual briefings and stuff today. I did watch the very inspired and very progressive State of the County speech from Nathan Fletcher (I've embedded it below) and watched the usual news, but I tried to listen to Jen Psaki but had to give up because the media just keep asking the same repetitive questions. I also wanted to point out that the "R-effective" which measures the transmission is .68 which is green (good) for the first time in ages. This is good news, but we're not in the clear. I'll get any missed stuff in the next post. Stay safe out there.
I didn't watch my usual briefings and stuff today. I did watch the very inspired and very progressive State of the County speech from Nathan Fletcher (I've embedded it below) and watched the usual news, but I tried to listen to Jen Psaki but had to give up because the media just keep asking the same repetitive questions. I also wanted to point out that the "R-effective" which measures the transmission is .68 which is green (good) for the first time in ages. This is good news, but we're not in the clear. I'll get any missed stuff in the next post. Stay safe out there.
- Local:
- County Sites Rescheduling COVID-19 Vaccine Appointments Due to Continued Delivery Delays - County News Center (2.18.2021)
- COVID-19:
- In lab experiment, Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine less potent against coronavirus variant - STAT (2.17.2021)
- Dying on the Waitlist. In Los Angeles County and around the country, doctors have had to decide who gets a lifesaving COVID-19 treatment and who doesn’t. - ProPublica (2.18.2021)
- Politics:
- Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall, February 18, 2021
- Fact Sheet: President Biden to Take Action on Global Health through Support of COVAX and Calling for Health Security Financing
- Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on Introduction of the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021
- News:
- US life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII - AP News (2.17.2021)
- Lights come back on in Texas as water woes rise in the South - AP News (2.18.2021)
- Other Reading/Writing:
- The Gig Economy Is Coming for Millions of American Jobs. California’s vote to classify Uber and Lyft drivers as contractors has emboldened other employers to eliminate salaried positions—and has become a cornerstone of bigger plans to “Uberize” the U.S. workforce. - Bloomberg Businessweek (2.18.2021)
- Mars Perseverance News/Blog - NASA
- Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 2/18/2021 10:23pm):
- 110,306,280 Known Cases
- 2,441,610 Known Deaths
- US COVID-19 Stats
- CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
- (JHU)
- 27,895,979 Cases
- 493,098 Deaths
- (COVID Tracking Project):
- 66,824 New Cases/27,624,548 Known Cases (1.9%+ Change over 7 Days)
- 2,616 New Deaths/483,223 Known Deaths
- 62,300 Current COVID-19 Hospitalizations
- 13,045 Currently COVID-19 patients in ICU
- 4,180 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: 17.2%
- R-effective: 0,63
- 5,573 New Cases/3,421,720 Total Cases (0.2% increase)
- 417 New Deaths/47,924 Total Deaths (0.9% increase)
- 3.9% 14-day test positivity rate
- 8,566 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-289 patients, -3.4% from prior day)
- 2,427 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-106 patients, -4.4% from prior day)
- 1,610 ICU beds available (-33 from prior day)
- San Diego State of the County Address
- Theme of Resilience, Reunite, Recover, Rebuild
- We want better than getting back to normal
- Making justice, fairness, and opportunity lead the progressive goals of San Diego County
- Plan to create County Dept of Homeless Solutions
- New framework for health in jails
- Enhancing resources for families
- Campus for mothers to break cycle of incarceration, addiction, violence, or other issues
- Juvenile Justice Campus is being built
- County will create a "living wage ordinance"
- Unions are our partners and allies and essential to recovery
- Creating an office to attract filmmakers
- Updating Waterfront Park with added amenities: t-ball field, pickleball, dog park and more features. Hoping to close parts of Harbor Drive to extend park to water.
- San Diego County
- Free Testing Sites and Schedule in San Diego
- VaccinationSuperstationSD
- Vaccination Dashboard
- State Data:
- Southern California ICU Bed Availability: 14.8%
- R-effective: 0.68
- 539 New Cases/254,177 Total Cases
- 57 Deaths/3,099 Total Deaths
- 25.9 cases/100k population (Assessed on 2/16. Unadjusted Case Rate)
- 6.4% Test Positivity (Assessed on 2/16)
- 9.7% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 2/16)
- 801 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (-20 patients, -2.4% from prior day)
- 247 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (-8 patients, -3.1% from prior day)
- 210 ICU beds available (-7 from prior day)
- County Data:
- San Diego County Update - County News Center
- 810 New Cases/254,990 Total Cases
- 36 New Daily Deaths/3,135 Total Deaths
- 765,500 Doses Shipped/684,278 Doses Administered
- 4% Daily Test Positivity/5.4% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/5.2% Test Positivity (14-day average)
- 22.2 cases/100k population (Assessed on 2/16. Adjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.)
- 94% Case Investigation
- -6.9% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (729 patients. -56% over 30 days)
- 26% ICU Capacity (235 patients. -45% over 30 days)
- 55 Staffed ICU Beds Available
- 6 New/33 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
- Business 15
- Grocery 2
- Government 1
- Healthcare 1
- Construction 2
- Emergency Services 1
- Food/Bev Processing 1
- Higher Ed 1
- tk-12 school 3
- Warehouse/Distribution 4
- Comm-Based Org 1
- Social Club 1
- Universities:
San Diego Zoo Photos (2.18.2021)
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