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| *Mlem* Giraffes are so silly looking head on (Taken 3.17.21) |
I stopped tracking the specifics of community outbreaks because so many of them were in "business or office settings" but as things have opened up, even slightly, two of today's six identified were in restaurants/bars (which is different from just restaurants) and so it begs the question why they decided St. Patrick's Day would be a good idea to allow red tier reopenings, especially when we can be certain that not all alcohol-serving venues will follow the capacity, reservation, and time-limits they're supposed to impose on parties. It's gonna be a big dumb mess and now the CDC has now deemed the California variants "of concern," suggesting they could be 20% more transmissible than the "wildtype" which is what they call the original virus. While our cases are no longer in the thousands, to think 5% of today's 411 cases will be hospitalized, and same for tomorrow and the day after ad infinitum, now is definitely not the time to drop your mask, to mix with groups, and treat life like everything is back to normal.
The news was especially depressing today with the murders in Atlanta. Let's be very clear here: gun violence is often sexual violence and gun violence is often racial violence. This fucking incel racist asshole murderer got the privilege of being arrested and not shot dead by cops, who then went on the news and said it wasn't racially motivated and he was having a bad day. The PBS News Hour story on AAPI violence is worth a watch, and in fact I was watching it yesterday as the news of the murders was coming in. I've included some links in today's post for sites that have information and ways you can help fight AAPI violence.
I made myself go to bed before midnight last night to try and get back to some semblance of normal. Me and Darren had a nice breakfast together for once, and after doing some webby stuff, we spent the afternoon at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. It was a little crowded being spring break and all, but we are always to find our quieter spots. We spent a lot of time with the tigers from the epiphyllum trail, got some active cheetah action, and spent the last part of the day getting closeups with the giraffe and elephants as the crowds thinned out. It was lovely and now I'm going to join him in the speakeasy because I deserve it. Be safe out there. Maybe someday we can actually have people over to join us.
- COVID-19:
- 2 California variants may be 20% more transmissible, are officially 'of concern,' CDC says - Becker's Hospital Review (3.17.21)
The variants B.1.427 and B.1.429, both initially identified in California, are classified by the CDC as variants of concern. The three-tier classification system has "variant of high consequence" as the most worrisome group, followed by "variant of concern" and then "variant of interest..."
Five variants are currently considered variants of concern, including the U.K. variant B.1.1.7, South Africa variant B.1.351 and Japan/Brazil variant P.1. - Coronavirus strains first detected in California are officially 'variants of concern,' CDC says - CNN (3.17.21)
- Many People Who Die of COVID-19 have the Virus in their Hearts - Science (3.17.21)
- Study: US COVID infections may have been twice the number reported - CIDRAP (3.16.21)
- WHO Weekly Epidemiological Update:
In the past week new cases continued to rise globally, increasing by 10% in the past week to over 3 million new reported cases. After peaking in early January 2021 when there were just under 5 million cases, new cases then declined to around 2.5 million in the week commencing 15 February 2021, but in the past three weeks have increased again. This week, the Americas and Europe continue to account for over 80% of new cases and new deaths, with rises in new cases seen in all regions apart from Africa, where they remained the same as last week. - Politics:
- White House Announces $10 Billion For COVID-19 Testing In Schools - npr/KPBS (3.17.21)
- News/Other Reading:
- Board Votes to Buy, Conserve Historic Star Ranch Land in Campo - County News Center (3.17.21)
- Why We Should’ve Seen The Atlanta Shootings Coming - The Daily Social Distancing Show (3.17.21)
- STOP AAPI HATE
- AAJC - Asian Americans Advancing Justice: Fighting for civil rights and empowering Asian Americans to create a more just America for all.
- How to File Your State and Federal Taxes for Free in 2021 - ProPublica (3.17.21)
- IRS postpones April 15 U.S. tax deadline to May 17 - CNBC (3.17.21)
- White House:
- Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, March 17, 2021
- notified all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico of the amount of funds they’ll be receiving from the American Rescue Plan, totaling nearly $122 billion to help them reopen safely and quickly
- HHS is allocating an additional $10 billion for states to do screening and surveillance testing of — in schools to make sure we can not only open our schools, but keep them open
- next week we will be having our National Reopening Summit for schools, where we’re going to hear best practices from across the country on how to do this safely and how to do it quickly
- Statement by President Biden on the Passage of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2021 in the House of Representatives
- Statement on the House of Representatives Passage of House Joint Resolution 17
- Statement by President Biden Applauding House Passage of Paycheck Protection Program Extension
- Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 3.17.21 7:25pm):
- JHU Data in Motion (YouTube)
- 121,139,773 Known Cases
- 2,679,932 Known Deaths
- US COVID-19 Stats
- CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
- JHU
- 29,604,820 Cases
- 538,050 Deaths
- CDC Data Tracker:
- 29,374,758 Known Cases
- 534,099 Known Deaths
- 147,590,615 Doses Delivered/113,037,627 Doses Administered
- Moderna 72,189,300 delivered/54,643,195 administered
- Pfizer 71,459,115 delivered/56,499,018 administered
- Janssen 3,942,200 delivered/3,942,200 administered
- California COVID-19 Stats:
- State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
- Vaccination progress dashboard
- Aggregate California ICU Bed Availability: 28.7%
- R-effective: 0.75
- Doses Delivered/Doses Administered
- 2,441 New Cases/3,532,496 Total Cases (6 new cases/100k; % increase)
- 205 New Deaths/55,577 Total Deaths (0.1 new deaths/100k; % increase)
- 2% 7-day test positivity rate
- 3,812 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-146 patients, -3.8% from prior day)
- 1,080 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-1 patients, -0.1% from prior day)
- 2,218 ICU beds available (-82 from prior day)
- San Diego County
- Free Testing Sites and Schedule in San Diego
- VaccinationSuperstationSD
- Vaccination Dashboard
- San Diego County Of Education School Reopening Dashboard
- State Data:
- Southern California ICU Bed Availability: 30.5%
- R-effective: 0.79
- 257 New Cases/265,903 Total Cases
- 10 Deaths/3,462 Total Deaths
- 6.8 cases/100k population (Assessed on 3/16. Unadjusted Case Rate)
- 2.8% Test Positivity (Assessed on 3/16)
- 4.2% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 3/16)
- 304 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (-2 patients, -0.7% from prior day)
- 92 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (-5 patients, -5.2% from prior day)
- 273 ICU beds available (-13 from prior day)
- County Data:
- San Diego County Update - County News Center
- Weekly Variant Update B1.1.7. - 300 Cases
- 411 New Cases/266,317 Total Cases
- 8 New Daily Deaths/3,470 Total Deaths
- Doses Delivered/Doses Administered
- 3% Daily Test Positivity/2.7% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/2.9% Test Positivity (14-day average)
- 6.8 cases/100k population (Assessed on 3/16. Adjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.)
- 97% Case Investigation
- -1.3% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (262 patients. -66% over 30 days)
- 39% ICU Capacity (79 patients. -69% over 30 days)
- 63 Staffed ICU Beds Available
- 6 New/20 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
- Universities:
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