Thursday is Earth Day, so I've linked some things--online and off--happening Thursday and through the weekend. The easiest thing you can do is grab a bucket and a picker and clean up your own street. It's actually amazing how much trash flies out of the bins when the automated trucks come for collection and my busy street gets all kinds of fly-in trash from El Cajon Boulevard's lack of bus stop trash cans or from the nearby convenience and grocery stores.
We had good news from the County during today's media briefing. The region got 100,000 more vaccines than last week and that is expected to stay consistent or go up in the coming weeks. Dr. McDonald also said that only 203 individuals considered fully vaccinated have tested positive for Sars-CoV-2, and 57% of those were asymptomatic. (These could be teachers, health care workers, or others who get regular testing, or someone who had a known contact of someone positive.) Bear in mind, the County is counting over 846,000 residents fully vaccinated. Of all of those there were zero hospitalizations and zero deaths. The bad news is globally, mostly because of the surge in India, the virus saw it's highest peak of the pandemic. It is unconscionable that we remain more beholden to corporations than to people and refuse to share vaccine 'recipes' with the world, especially when big pharma got billions in taxpayer money to develop vaccines in the first place.
Besides all that, it was a good day and I'm gonna go have some cocktails with Darren in the speakeasy. Stay safe out there. Get your vaccine.
- Earth Day 2021:
- Virtual Celebration, Real Fun — County’s Earth Day 2021!
- SD Parks Earth Day Activities
- International Earth Day 2021
- White House Leaders Summit on Climate: Schedule
- 300,000 People Send a Clear Message to Biden: Time’s Up for Fossil Fuels - 350.org
- I Love A Clean San Diego Creek To Bay Cleanup - April 24, 2021
- California Native Plant Week - MTRP
- COVID-19:
- What 5 states are driving 75% of new US COVID-19 cases? Answer: NJ, MI, PA, NY, FL - Becker's Hospital Review (4.21.21)
- New COVID-19 Cases Surge to Pandemic High - Statista (4.20.21)
According to the World Health Organization, the seven-day average of daily new cases climbed to 754,718 on Monday, the highest it's been at any point during the pandemic. The situation is particularly dramatic in India at the moment, where the number of daily new cases skyrocketed from 70,000 to more than 270,000 since the beginning of April. - Johnson & Johnson vaccine ‘pause’ isn’t crimping confidence in the vaccination process, survey says. A CDC advisory committee is scheduled to meet Friday to discuss what’s next for the J&J shot. - MarketWatch (4.20.21)
- Most Americans say they should be vaccinated before the U.S. donates Covid-19 shots elsewhere - STAT (4.21.21)
- Study shows COVID-19 case rates in schools higher than previously believed. The Omaha Public School district program tested asymptomatic students and staff. - ABC News (4.20.21)
- Politics:
- The Chauvin Verdict Is a Massive Step Toward Accountability in America. Using It For Social Media Clout Is Gross - Paste (4.21.21)
- White House:
- Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, April 21, 2021
- Statement from Press Secretary Jen Psaki
- US will hit 100M shots on Thursday
- Government will fully reimburse paid time off to small and medium sized businesses for allowing employees to get vaccinated and recover
- Remarks by President Biden on the COVID-19 Response and the State of Vaccinations
- Readout of the Third National Climate Task Force Meeting
- Remarks by Vice President Harris on the Verdict in the Derek Chauvin Trial for the Death of George Floyd
- Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Announces Investigation of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Minneapolis Police Department
- Additional Civilian Assistance to Afghanistan
- News:
- Escondido Police Fatally Shoot Man Allegedly Wielding Large Crowbar - kpbs/City News Service (4.21.21)
- Ma’Khia Bryant: Columbus police release body camera footage in shooting of 16-year-old - The Columbus Dispatch (4.21.21)
- Bodycam footage shows fatal police shooting of 16-year-old girl in southeast Columbus. The teen's mother and Franklin County Children Services identified her as Ma’Khia Bryant. -10WBNS (4.21.21)
- Ohio Police Killed a 16-Year-Old Girl and a Cop Wore a ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Mask to the Crime Scene. Ma’Khia Bryant was shot dead by Columbus police on Tuesday. - Vice (4.21.21)
- Protesters rally after Black man is killed by NC deputies with search warrant - The News & Observer (4.21.21)
- Other Reading:
- Brace yourselves. Facebook has a new mega-leak on its hands. Facebook Email Search v1.0 can process 5 million email addresses per day, researcher says. - ARS Technica (4.20.21)
- Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 4.21.21 9:20pm):
- 143,528,162 Known Cases
- 3,056,040 Known Deaths
- US COVID-19 Stats
- CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
- JHU
- 31,862,080 Cases
- 569,401 Deaths
- CDC Data Tracker:
- +57,261 New Cases/31,602,676 Known Cases
- +733 New Deaths/565,613 Known Deaths
- 277,938,875 Doses Delivered/215,951,909 Doses Administered
- Moderna 118,120,300 delivered/94,684,047 administered/36,343,381 Fully Vaccinated
- Pfizer 142,177,425 delivered/113,104,771 administered/43,276,992 Fully Vaccinated
- Janssen 17,641,150 delivered/7,993,255 administered/7,931,207 Fully Vaccinated
- California COVID-19 Stats:
- State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
- Vaccination progress dashboard
- Aggregate California ICU Bed Availability: 32.8%
- R-effective: 0.78
- 33,390,900 Doses Delivered/26,454,819 Doses Administered (Today’s count of vaccine administered doses is incomplete. Complete counts will be updated once available later this week.)
- 2,126 New Cases/3,622,427 Total Cases (5 new cases/100k)
- 86 New Deaths/59,980 Total Deaths (0.1 new deaths/100k)
- 1.5% 7-day test positivity rate
- 2,116 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-32 patients, -1.5% from prior day)
- 483 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (+3 patients, +0.6% from prior day)
- 2,331 ICU beds available (-204 from prior day)
- San Diego County Media Briefing
- CA has lowest positivity rate in the country
- San Diego Region received 100,000 more vaccine doses this week than last week
- County will break down vaccine distribution weekly by Local Health Jurisdiction, Indian Health Services, Federally qualified health centers, Federal pharmacy program, and multi-county entities. Does not include VA/DOD allocations.
- Monoclonal Antibody Treatment available for free in Chula Vista for people who test positive for COVID
- Pop-up no-appointment vaccinations will continue around count
- Media Questions:
- Don't know when supply will exceed demand, but if/when that does, will expand community engagement to vaccine hesitant.
- Three media questions. All included questions about hesitancy. So maybe it's the media driving that narrative in the first place? San Diego has not seen any areas of the county where demand is less than supply.
- County is working closely with colleges and universities to ensure availability of testing and vaccines into fall. Institutions can choose if they want to make vaccinations mandatory.
- 203 individuals fully vaccinated have tested positive with Sars-CoV-2. 57% were asymptomatic. Zero have been hospitalized. Zero have died. Represents .027% of vaccinated people.
- 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: 35.5%
- R-effective: 0.81
- 256 New Cases/275,369 Total Cases
- 0 Deaths/3,674 Total Deaths
- 6.4 cases/100k population (Assessed on 4/20. Unadjusted Case Rate)
- 2.4% Test Positivity (Assessed on 4/20)
- 3.0% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 4/20)
- 193 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (+5 patients, +2.7% from prior day)
- 57 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (-3 patients, -5.0% from prior day)
- 288 ICU beds available (-24 from prior day)
- County Data:
- San Diego County COVID-19 Update – 4-21-2021 - County News Center
- 263 New Cases/275,631 Total Cases
- 7 New Daily Deaths/3,681 Total Deaths
- 2,583,595 Doses Received/2,352,105 Doses Administered
- 2% Daily Test Positivity/2.4% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/1.7% Test Positivity (14-day average)
- 6.1 cases/100k population (Assessed on 4/20. Adjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.)
- 99% Case Investigation
- +2.2% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (168 patients. -22% over 30 days)
- 39% ICU Capacity (56 patients. -25% over 30 days)
- 54 Staffed ICU Beds Available
- 8 New/21 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
- Universities:
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