san diego: dialed in: CoViD-19: US Passes 450k Deaths | Vaccinations Continue Ramping Up | Rs Hate Losing The Game They Created

Wednesday, February 03, 2021

CoViD-19: US Passes 450k Deaths | Vaccinations Continue Ramping Up | Rs Hate Losing The Game They Created | Photos: San Diego Zoo Safari Park

Mkhaya and Zuli Were Having Fun Wrestling Today (Taken 2.3.2021)

I'm glad I did my bonus post last night because we did Safari Park today and I just don't have it in me today. Basically the news is people complaining about not getting vaccine appointments across the country, then doctors convincing us why everyone should get one, and then our electeds telling us things will get better and ramped up more and more everyday. In the meantime, I'm so happy for friends getting vaccinated but I understand people being disgruntled when a masseuse at a fancy day spa and someone selling weed at a pot shop gets priority over people with disabilities, comorbidities, or are actual first responders or frontline workers or teaches. It's so crazy.

The rest of the news is about the Rescue Plan and impeachment so a lot of the same stuff as always.

I'll get to watching today's county briefing on Thursday which is normally an otherwise slow news day. In the meantime, today's numbers and my Safari Park photos are below. I'm definitely out of practice, but it was nice to be there all the same. It wasn't crowded at all when we arrived at 3pm, but there were definitely more people who take advantage of the wide open spaces by cruising around with their masks as chin-bras or just drinking beers and making sure their kids always have some sort of snack in their hands to exempt them from mask wearing. Super eyeroll. But it wasn't bad enough that we won't be back super soon. Maybe even on Sunday during the big game.

COVID-19:

It’s Time for a National Pandemic Prediction Agency. A federal office that collects outbreak data, models epidemics, and spreads the word to the public could keep the next Covid from being another Covid. - Wired (2.3.2021)

Politics:

House Republicans vote to keep Cheney in leadership - Reuters (2.3.2021)
145-61 to keep Cheney in her post

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki (2.3.2021)

Biden discussed American Rescue Plan with Dem Caucus via phone. The cost of doing too little is greater than the cost of doing too much. Also met directly with Schumer.
Biden: $1400 direct payments. $400/week on unemployment. Money for states and cities for frontline workers.
Media Questions:

Reports say that direct payment will go into people's savings. Administration says they're listening to governors, leaders, mayors, and the people who say that is simply not true. (As someone who would, in fact, put the money in savings, it is to pay my bills down the line when assistance is over and my music venue is still closed.)

Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 2.3.2021 9:22pm):

104,389,634 Known Cases
2,268,681 Known Deaths

US COVID-19 Stats

CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
(JHU)

26,554,792 Cases
450,681 Deaths

(COVID Tracking Project):

116,960 New Cases/26,331,722 Known Cases (3.7%+ Change over 7 Days)
3,685 New Deaths/440,922 Known Deaths
91,440 Current COVID-19 Hospitalizations
18,147 Currently COVID-19 patients in ICU
5,920 COVID-19 patients currently on ventilator

Governor Gavin Newsom Media Briefing:

Opening FEMA Mass Vaccination Site at Oakland/Alameda Stadium
FEMA sites are additive, don't take from vaccination allocations or work force
Media Questions:

FEMA will be securing all doses, PPE, supports, staffing to get up to 6k doses per day per mass site
Every state faced similar issues with rollout, with allocations. With new admin, this process will be less wavering, less inconsistent, more reliable
CA has tripled vaccine distribution, state is now in top tier of distribution
Johnson & Johnson could be a game-changer
Blue Shield partnership was developed by experts. Accusations of choice being political is "nonsense". Blue Shield and Kaiser have the scale, capacity, that we needed.
CDC is saying teachers don't need to be vaccinated to reopen. Governor wants to do it in a safe way under the framework that won't be episodic or rolled back.
87 positive cases in schools in January which was down compared to Nov/Dec despite community numbers being highest in January.*

Don't know where governor got this statistic. 1/10-1/23 in San Diego had 179 exposures in K-12 schools.

State has provided framework for youth sports.
State is sued all the time, some are specious and frivolous, some help things move forward, provide a new lens not previouslly considered

California COVID-19 Stats:

State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
Vaccination progress dashboard
Aggregate California ICU Bed Availability: 11.7%
R-effective: 0.77
10,501 New Cases/3,281,271 Total Cases (0.3% increase)
481 New Deaths/41,811 Total Deaths (1.2% increase)
6.9% 14-day test positivity rate
14,578 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-421 patients, -2.9% from prior day)
3,772 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-122 patients, -3.2% from prior day)
1,278 ICU beds available (-6 from prior day)

San Diego County

Free Testing Sites and Schedule in San Diego
VaccinationSuperstationSD
Vaccination Dashboard
San Diegans Urged to Be Patient to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19
Season’s First Flu Death Reported, Also Had COVID-19
County of San Diego Influenza Watch, 2/3/2021

677 Total Cases of Influenza
1 Death (Patient was also COVID-19 Positive)

State Data:

Southern California ICU Bed Availability: 9.1%
R-effective: 0.78
926 New Cases/240,047 Total Cases
10 Deaths/2,629 Total Deaths
50.5 cases/100k population (Assessed on 2/1. Unadjusted Case Rate)
10.5% Test Positivity (Assessed on 2/1)
14% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 2/1)
1,284 -19 hospitalized patients (-50 patients, -3.7% from prior day)
364 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (-22 patients, -5.7% from prior day)
160 ICU beds available (+6 from prior day)

County Data:

San Diego County Update - County News Center
968 New Cases/241,018 Total Cases
54 New Daily Deaths/2,683 Total Deaths
586,225 Doses Shipped/357,507 Doses Administered
5% Daily Test Positivity/9.7% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/7.7% Test Positivity (14-day average)
42.5 cases/100k population (Assessed on 2/1. Adjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.)
91% Case Investigation
-4% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (1,227 patients. -22% over 30 days)
16% ICU Capacity (363 patients. -3% increase over 30 days)
40 Available Staffed ICU Beds
11 New/60 Community Outbreaks (7-day)