Darren and I had a fun night in the speakeasy, and after Darren went to bed I caught up on yesterday's briefings. I'm still really behind in emails and I'm hoping to catch up tonight. We went back to the San Diego Zoo today --our third day in a row. The Skyfari had only been open on weekends, but during this "Spring Awakening" promotion, it's been open daily so we've taken full advantage. I guess they actually liked when we did the three back to back trips, because we did it again today. The leopards were super active, so we watched them for awhile, and we spent some time with Otis the hippo. I was thinking it would be fun to do a meetup at the seating area over by the elephants, but maybe I'll wait until summer hours and more widespread vaccinations. I still want to get to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park this week, but I just haven't motivated early enough to make the trip worthwhile.
I know I've said over and over that I haven't and won't eat out, but I guess I'm dipping my toe in the water for a private invite-only soft opening of the Casbah tomorrow. Tim Mays was on the news today and I've included the clip below.
I'm gonna get back to my email now and I'll throw in another post with anything meaningful plus some Zoo photos. Stay safe out there.
- COVID-19:
- UK variant (B.1.1.7) of COVID-19 is now most common strain in United States: CDC - Reuters (4.7.21)
- Scripps Data Experts Team with Columbia Researchers to Evaluate Phase 3 Reopening Last Summer - Scripps (4.5.21)
- Politics:
- San Diego City Council meeting 4/6/21 (Elections matter. I'm not happy with my councilperson Stephen Whitburn at all.)
- Passed: Declaring Measure C (ballot measure for increase in the City's transient occupancy tax) to have been approved in the municipal special election held in the City of San Diego on March 3, 2020
- Passed: Authorizing the issuance of bonds with maximum bonded indebtedness, including financing costs, for homelessness programs in accordance with a voter-approved citizens' initiative measure known as Measure C, and approving related actions
- Passed: Authorizing the issuance of bonds with maximum bonded indebtedness, including financing costs, for modernization improvements at the downtown San Diego Convention Center in accordance with a voter-approved citizens' initiative measure known as Measure C, and approving related actions
- News:
- Other Reading:
- State and Federal Authority to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccination - Congressional Research Service (4.2.21)
This report provides an overview of state and federal authority to mandate vaccination. The first part of the report provides background on state and local authority to mandate vaccination under states’ general police power. It discusses the Supreme Court’s long-standing recognition of state and local authority to mandate vaccination as an exercise of their police power, as well as modern courts’ analyses of more recent challenges to state vaccination mandates based on the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause. The first part of the report closes with a look at how the COVID-19 vaccines’ EUA status may affect a court’s analysis of a potential mandate. The second part of the report provides an overview of federal authority to mandate vaccination. It discusses one possible source of existing federal authority, Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), and reviews the extent of Congress’s constitutional authority under the Constitution’s Spending and Commerce Clauses to potentially mandate vaccination - Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security - Malgorithm: How Instagram's algorithm publishes misinformation and hate to millions during a pandemic - Center for Countering Digital Hate
Using real examples of posts recommended to users by Instagram, we expose how the platform's algorithm is publishing dangerous misinformation about Covid and vaccines in the midst of a pandemic, as well as QAnon and antisemitic conspiracy theories. We set out clear steps by which Instagram's owner, Facebook, can put people over profit, fix its broken algorithm and protect its users. - White House:
- Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, April 7, 2021
- Remarks by President Biden on the American Jobs Plan
- Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials
- All adult Americans will be eligible to be vaccinated by April 19.
- Almost 80% of pre-K through 12th grade teachers, school staff, and childcare workers received at least one shot.
- 7-day average ~63,000 new cases per day (2.3% increase)
- Up 2.4%
- ~5,000 hospital admissions per day (2.7% increase)
- 745 7-day death average (19.7% decrease)
- Hospitals are seeing more and more younger adults — those in their 30s and 40s — admitted with severe disease.
- B117 variant is now the most common lineage circulating in US
- Youth sports shouldn't happen in communities with significant transmission.
- Youth sports should be testing twice weekly.
- Reports of clusters of cases associated with daycare centers and youth sports.
- Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 4.7.21 10:20pm):
- 133,116,310 Known Cases
- 2,887,706 Known Deaths
- US COVID-19 Stats
- CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
- JHU
- 30,992,347 Cases
- 559,109 Deaths
- CDC Data Tracker:
- +61,258 New Cases/30,662,171 Known Cases
- +781 New Deaths/555,231 Known Deaths
- 225,294,435 Doses Delivered/171,476,655 Doses Administered
- Moderna 99,347,800 delivered/78,315,776 administered
- Pfizer 112,345,935 delivered/88,463,874 administered
- Janssen 13,600,700 delivered/4,544,552 administered
- California COVID-19 Stats:
- State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
- Vaccination progress dashboard
- Aggregate California ICU Bed Availability: 31.0%
- R-effective: 0.77
- 26,488,830 Doses Delivered/21,029,839 Doses Administered
- 2,229 New Cases/3,586,059 Total Cases (5 new cases/100k)
- 118 New Deaths/58,659 Total Deaths (0.1 new deaths/100k)
- 1.8% 7-day test positivity rate
- 2,366 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-7 patients, -0.3% from prior day)
- 527 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-16 patients, -3.0% from prior day)
- 2,362 ICU beds available (-39 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: 32.1%
- R-effective: 0.80
- 212 New Cases/271,867 Total Cases
- 2 Deaths/3,585 Total Deaths
- 5.8 cases/100k population (Assessed on 4/6. Unadjusted Case Rate)
- 7-Day Positivity
- 2.3% Test Positivity (Assessed on 4/6)
- 2.6% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 4/6)
- 198 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (-7 patients, -3.4% from prior day)
- 57 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (+1 patients, +1.8% from prior day)
- 286 ICU beds available (+6 from prior day)
- County Data:
- San Diego County COVID-19 Update – 4-7-2021 - County News Center
- 328 New Cases/272,194 Total Cases
- 3 New Daily Deaths/3,588 Total Deaths
- 2,063,755 Doses Received/1,898,349 Doses Administered
- 2% Daily Test Positivity/2.7% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/2.2% Test Positivity (14-day average)
- 5.8 cases/100k population (Assessed on 4/6. Adjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.)
- 99% Case Investigation
- -2.7% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (164 patients. -50% over 30 days)
- 39% ICU Capacity (52 patients. -52% over 30 days)
- 59 Staffed ICU Beds Available
- 7 New/16 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
- Universities:
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