Say what?
So it turns out they're flying to Indianapolis to see my uncle and cousins. But the girls are unvaccinated. Nadia isn't even eligible until they lower the age threshold or until she turns 12 in October. I cannot understand the thinking on any of it. It would be one thing if they were testing regularly just to be on the safe side, but they're not doing that either. I told my mom that they're going to have to quarantine and forbid my sister and the girls from visiting for a while after they return. My eyes have rolled so far back into my head I've given myself a headache.
And I've been stewing on the CDC announcement and I posted some opinion pieces about it below, and every news outlet has covered it, every late night host has had their jokes about it, but the thing I keep thinking about is how we're all now just in a living experiment and I don't like it. Despite still standing state and county health orders, friends who work at Trader Joe's and Sprouts have said their stores have stopped requiring masks. Just when things were really starting to feel positive and safe and like we're heading in the right direction. the CDC just made me, and others like me, a massive reason to distrust everyone around me and that really fucking sucks. At least with maskholes, you had a visible cue as to whether the person was nuts or not, but that cue is essentially gone now. I'm not stoked about that at all. Stay safe out there.
- COVID-19:
- The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill. All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences. - Wired (5.13.21)
- How Did We Get Here: What Are Droplets and Aerosols and How Far Do They Go? A Historical Perspective on the Transmission of Respiratory Infectious Diseases - SSRN (4.28.21)
- Covid-19 has redefined airborne transmission. Improving indoor ventilation and air quality will help us all to stay safe - BMJ (4.14.21)
- Op-eds about the mask guidance for fully vaccinated people
- Op-Ed: What Was CDC Thinking With Its New Mask Guidance?— The agency has lurched from over-caution to abandoning all caution
- Opinion: The CDC shouldn’t have removed restrictions without requiring proof of vaccination - The Washington Post (5.13.21)
- The Yankees Covid Outbreak May Be Bad News for Ditching Masks. The spate of cases is a bad bounce—and it might show that lifting mask mandates for the vaxxed won’t be a grand slam. - Wired (5.13.21)
“That’s what vaccines do. They prevent illness,” says David Boulware, an infectious disease physician and researcher at the University of Minnesota. “That’s why, when there’s a large unvaccinated population, people who’ve been vaccinated should still wear masks. It’s an incredibly low risk of transmission, but it’s not zero.” - White House:
- Executive Order on the Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions and Technical Amendment
- A Proclamation on Revoking Proclamation 9945
- Explainer: Biden cancels Trump's planned 'Garden of American Heroes' - yahoo! news (5.14.21)
- Other Reading:
- One of our faves: City Heights Bites: Minh Ký - kpbs (5.13.21)
- Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 5.15.21 9:20pm):
- 3,735,305 Known Cases
- 3,365,106 Known Deaths
- US COVID-19 Stats
- CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
- JHU
- 32,923,842 Cases
- 585,708 Deaths
- CDC Data Tracker:
- +37,314 New Cases/32,722,464 Known Cases
- +690 New Deaths/582,263 Known Deaths
- 344,503,395 Doses Delivered
- 270,832,342 Doses Administered
- 156,217,367 Partially Vaccinated (47.1%)
- 121,768,268 Fully Vaccinated (36.7%)
- California COVID-19 Stats:
- State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
- Vaccination progress dashboard
- Aggregate California ICU Bed Availability: 0.91
- R-effective: 33.8%
- 43,145,000 Doses Delivered/34,147,125 Doses Administered
- 4,837,852 Partially Vaccinated (15.2%)/15,362,144 Fully Vaccinated (48.3%)
- 1,864 New Cases/3,663,539 Total Cases (3.4new cases/100k)
- 27 New Deaths/61,444 Total Deaths (new deaths/100k)
- 1.1% 7-day test positivity rate
- 1,723 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-30 patients, -1.7% from prior day)
- 381 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-13 patients, -3.3% from prior day)
- 2,235 ICU beds available (+15 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
- Evening COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics Coming to North, East, South County
- State Data:
- Southern California ICU Bed Availability: 36.2%
- R-effective: 0.89
- 261 New Cases/278,853 Total Cases
- 3 Deaths/3,732 Total Deaths
- 4.1 cases/100k population (Assessed on 5/11. Unadjusted Case Rate)
- 1.7% Test Positivity (Assessed on 5/11)
- 2.0% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 5/11)
- 147 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (-7 patients, -4.5% from prior day)
- 44 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (-3 patients, -6.4% from prior day)
- 168 ICU beds available (-33 from prior day)
- County Data:
- 138 New Cases/278,990 Total Cases
- 5 New Daily Deaths/3,737 Total Deaths
- 3,735,305 Doses Received/3,278,819 Doses Administered
- 1,765,927 Partially Vaccinated/1,314,431 Fully Vaccinated
- 1% Daily Test Positivity/1.5% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/1.6% Test Positivity (14-day average)
- 3.7 cases/100k population (Assessed on 5/11. Adjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.)
- 96.7% Case Investigation
- -4.4% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (119 patients. -28% over 30 days)
- 28% ICU Capacity (37 patients. -34% over 30 days)
- 49 Staffed ICU Beds Available
- 0 New/8 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
- Universities:
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