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Good Girl Shaba Plays Peek-A-Boo (Taken 3.23.21)

Sometime in February, San Diego County announced that they would accept names on a list for homebound seniors to be given vaccines at home. All you had to do, they said, was call 2-1-1 and they would take your information and reach out when they could come to your house. I three-way called the number with my mom, which resulted in her getting an appointment at the Chula Vista Superstation, but not really any information about how long it would take for my dad, a homebound senior. Since he doesn't get any of the Great Plates benefits, I feared he wouldn't be top priority. Recently it was announced that the organization that was supposed to handle the in-home shots gave up after 3 dozen shots because it was too challenging. 

Since then, the County came to a new agreement with Sharp and we tried calling again, reaching out to friends who may be in the know, and called a couple other numbers who were collecting the information. This morning, my parents got a call that the vaccine-mobile would be at their house at 1pm, and my dad got the 1-shot Janssen vaccine. My parents didn't get a celebration for their 50th anniversary in 2020, but this year it looks like we'll all be fully vaccinated so we can celebrate close to the actual anniversary date and I couldn't be more grateful. 

I didn't even know until after an already good day. I was up early, Darren and I had a nice home brunch, caught up on some news and such, and went to the San Diego Zoo for the last hour they were open. It's definitely more crowded right now, but when it's like that, we stick to our philosophy of "birds and stairs." The aviaries aren't a super popular feature for tourists who may just be coming for this one time and just want to see the big animals: cats, apes, and bears. Additionally, the mommy militia have to avoid a lot of the gardens with stairs and steep hills with their double wide strollers, so we're still able to see a lot and find quieter less traveled spaces. I also made sure I visited Shaba the elephant to tell her what a good girl she is. As we were driving home, we saw a brass band practicing in the parking lot which was a nice little surprise. Catch it on my Facebook. Stay safe out there! 

• COVID-19:
• AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Data Questioned By Safety Board - kpbs/npr (3.23.21)
• NIAID Statement on AstraZeneca Vaccine (3.23.21)
• WHO Weekly Epidemiological Update
  Globally, COVID-19 confirmed cases continued to rise for a fourth consecutive week, with just under 3.3 million new cases reported in the last week . Concurrently, the number of new deaths reported plateaued after a six week decrease, with just over 60 000 new deaths reported. A marked increase in the number of new cases was reported from the South East Asia, Western Pacific, European and Eastern Mediterranean regions, all of which are on an upward trajectory in recent weeks. The European Region and the Region of the Americas continue to account for nearly 80% of all the cases and deaths.
• ‘You work your butt off’: Inside the scramble to bring Covid-19 vaccines to homebound Americans - STAT News (3.23.21)
• Politics: 
• San Diego Convention Center To Hold Asylum-Seeking Unaccompanied Minors - kpbs/City News Service (3.22.21)
• Stop Blaming Tuskegee, Critics Say. It's Not An 'Excuse' For Current Medical Racism - npr/KQED (3.23.21)
• Democrats vow vote on gun bills; Biden says ‘we have to act’ - AP News (3.23.21)
• News:
• ACA Deadline Extended To August 15
• Other Reading: 
• Joy Downer Performs with Beck on “The Late Late Show with James Corden.” She was also joined by director Sam Taylor-Johnson and tap dancing drummer Lauren Brown. - Flood (3.23.21)
• Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 3.23.21 8:24pm):
• 124,143,841 Known Cases
• 2,733,634 Known Deaths
• US COVID-19 Stats 
• CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
• JHU
• 29,920,378 Cases
• 543,793 Deaths
• CDC Data Tracker:
• 29,708,385 Known Cases 
• 540,503 Known Deaths
• 164,300,795 Doses Delivered/128,217,029 Doses Administered
• Moderna  77,739,400 delivered/60,913,292 administered
• Pfizer 81,993,795 delivered/64,679,659 administered
• Janssen 4,567,600 delivered/2,489,153 administered
• California COVID-19 Stats:
• State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
• Vaccination progress dashboard
• Aggregate California ICU Bed Availability: 30.0%
• R-effective: 0.80
• 19,292,060 Doses Delivered
• 15,152,845 Doses Administered
• 1,823 New Cases/3,549,101 Total Cases (5.1 new cases/100k; 0.1% increase)
• 51 New Deaths/56,596 Total Deaths (0 new deaths/100k; 0.1% increase)
• 1.7% 7-day test positivity rate
• 3,005 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-7 patients, -0.2% from prior day)
• 703 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-31 patients, -4.4% from prior day)
• 2,354 ICU beds available (+97 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: 31.8%
• R-effective: 0.87
• 189 New Cases/267,913 Total Cases
• 0 Deaths/3,494 Total Deaths
• 5.5 cases/100k population (Assessed on 3/23. Unadjusted Case Rate)
• 1.7% 7-day positivity
• 2.4% Test Positivity (Assessed on 3/23)
• 3.4% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 3/23)
• 255 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (+5 patients, +2% from prior day)
• 85 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (-5 patients, -5.6% from prior day)
• 318 ICU beds available (+26 from prior day)
• County Data:
• San Diego County Update - County News Center 
• Weekly COVID-19 Watch 
• Last 2 Weeks: 4,931 Cases/1,894 Interviewed
• 1,065 No Community Exposure Reported
• 205 Bars and Restaurants
• 633 Household exposures
• 243 New Cases/268,160 Total Cases 
• 4 New Daily Deaths/3,498 Total Deaths
• 1,592,395 Doses Received/1,441,747 Doses Administered
• 2% Daily Test Positivity/2.4% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/2.7% Test Positivity (14-day average)
• 5.5 cases/100k population (Assessed on 3/23. Adjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.) 
• 99% Case Investigation 
• -5.7% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (215 patients. -65% over 30 days)
• 42% ICU Capacity (75 patients. -62% over 30 days)
• 58 Staffed ICU Beds Available
• 0 New/16 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
• Universities:
• SDSU COVID-19, UCSD COVID-19, USD COVID-19, CSU San Marcos, PLNU

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