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The Gorillas at San Diego Zoo Safari Park have recovered from COVID-19
and are back on exhibit. (Taken 11.10.2020)

Today's acquittal didn't come as any surprise, but that Maya Angelou quote comes to mind, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." So it is written who supported the former president and party over country. It is on record for us to never forget. 43 senators chose to look the other way or attempt to save their own asses or who knows what they tell themselves to sleep at night. I did my best to avoid social media because I don't need to feed my outrage any further, but I do always have my go-tos like Rebecca Solnit or Heather Cox Richardson to give some context and perspective. I just hope this means that the news will finally stop showing his disgusting face, the late shows retire all impressions, and we can close this horrible chapter of American history and hope he just withers away. 

To take a break from all of that, I finally watched Life In A Day 2020 on YouTube and it is full of humanity and hope and sadness and grief and joy and it is definitely worth the watch. Tonight we're cooking up the crab I ordered from Seattle so I'm gonna cut it early tonight. I will also mention my mom got her first Moderna shot today at the Chula Vista Superstation and said it was easy-peasy, organized, and an overall great experience and she didn't experience any symptoms or pain. Hope you all can get your appointments when your tier comes up. Stay safe out there. 

• COVID-19:
• Caring for the Caregivers — Covid-19 Vaccination for Essential Members of the Health Care Team - NEJM (2.12.2021)
• Zinc, vitamin C show no effect for COVID-19 in small study - CIDRAP (2.12.2021)
• Pfizer’s vaccine appears to reduce coronavirus transmission. Vaccinated people tend to carry less virus in their bodies than unvaccinated people, studies show - Science News (2.12.2021)
• Politics: 
• After Two All-Day Markups, Ways & Means Advances Majority Of President Biden's COVID-19 Relief Package - Ways & Means Committee (2.11.2021)
• With Republican firewall, U.S. Senate acquits Trump of inciting deadly Capitol riot - Reuters (2.13.2021)
• 57 GOP State And Local Officials Were At The Capitol Insurrection. And a month after the riot, few of the Republican political figures have been held to account. - Huffington Post (2.13.2021)
• News: 
• USD Message from the Provost (Campus Lockdown Through Feb)
• 1/3-1/9 35 cases
• 1/10-1/16 23 cases
• 1/17-1/23 43 cases
• 1/24-1/30 68 cases
• 1/31-2/6 169 cases
• 2/7-2/13 54 cases
• Other Reading/Watching:
• Rollback of Migratory Bird Protections Delayed by New Administration. The decision to delay implementation of this rule change offers an opportunity to reinstate and strengthen the 100-year-old law. - Audubon (2.4.2021)
• Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 2/13/2021 7:24pm):
• 108,521,301 Known Cases 
• 2,393,412 Known Deaths
• US COVID-19 Stats 
• CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
• (JHU)
• 27,574,200 Cases
• 484,167 Deaths
• (COVID Tracking Project):
• 90,199 New Cases/27,356,889 Known Cases (2.5%+ Change over 7 Days)
• 3,428 New Deaths/474,423 Known Deaths
• 69,283 Current COVID-19 Hospitalizations
• 14,396 Currently COVID-19 patients in ICU
• 4,658 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: 13.6%
• R-effective: 0.71
• 9,421 New Cases/3,391,036 Total Cases (% increase)
• 433 New Deaths/46,435 Total Deaths (% increase)
• 4.9% 14-day test positivity rate
• 9,998 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-496 patients, -5% from prior day)
• 2,808 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-122 patients, -4.3% from prior day)
• 1,437 ICU beds available (+38 from prior day)
• San Diego County 
• Free Testing Sites and Schedule in San Diego
• VaccinationSuperstationSD
• Vaccination Dashboard
• State Data:
• Southern California ICU Bed Availability: 10.6%
• R-effective: 0.78
• 817 New Cases/250,788 Total Cases
• 24 Deaths/2,979 Total Deaths
• 35.4 cases/100k population (Assessed on 2/9. Unadjusted Case Rate)
• 9.1% Test Positivity (Assessed on 2/9)
• 12.1% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 2/9)
• 890 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (-4 patients, -0.4% from prior day)
• 292 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (+4 patients, +1.4% from prior day)
• 178 ICU beds available (+8 from prior day)
• County Data:
• 891 New Cases/251,682 Total Cases 
• 30 New Daily Deaths/3,009 Total Deaths
• 703,200 Doses Shipped/569,060 Doses Administered
• 5% Daily Test Positivity/6.7% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/5.9% Test Positivity (14-day average)
• 34.2 cases/100k population (Assessed on 2/9. Adjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.) 
• 96% Case Investigation 
• -12.1% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (842 patients. -51% over 30 days)
• 21% ICU Capacity (276 patients. -33% over 30 days)
• 42 Staffed ICU Beds Available
• 7 New/64 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
• Universities:
• SDSU COVID-19, UCSD COVID-19, USD COVID-19, CSU San Marcos, PLNU