CoViD-19: SDUSD Mulls Vax Mandate | Scott Peters Puts Pharma First |

 

Elephant Herd at San Diego Zoo Safari Park (Taken 9.16.21)

I'm gonna keep it short today and try to continue that trend for my birthday week. I had a really great day because my mom came over after my nieces' soccer games and Darren and I took her to San Diego Zoo Safari Park. She hadn't been in over five years so we took the park slowly and covered most of the park. She was teasing me how all the animals seem to come to me no matter which enclosure we're observing and while I'd like to believe that's true, really it was just the perfect cool and overcast weather that seems to make them so happy. 

I'm not sure what's happening with the State's website, it shows that it is updated by day but the numbers are still the same as Friday, which I only caught because it was such an unusual number of cases on Friday: 4,448,666. 

I've been trying to bury my head in the sand while congress hammers out the two major bills pressing forward, because as Jen Psaki would say, nobody wants to see how the sausage gets made, but finding out San Diego Democratic Congressman Scott Peters joined the Republicans in a committee vote against moving forward from the House Budget Committee. Obviously he has all the pharmaceutical corporations in his district, but he sure did get a fat payday after making moves as such earlier in the month. Get with the party or GTFO. 

My dad is still in the hospital and miserable without my mom tending to his every itch or ouch. I hope they keep him a few more days but I also know he's scared and doesn't want to die there, especially being alone. I'm hopeful that his good doctors and science can offer him relief soon, and just grateful that he has a bed and a room and the care he really needs right now, because if we were impacted by crisis of care standards, I'm afraid he might not be top of the list. 

Stay safe out there.   

• COVID-19:
• San Diego Unified School District to Vote on Vaccine Mandate For Students, Staff. If the board approves the mandate on Tuesday, all eligible students, staff and contractors will be required to be fully vaccinated on or before Dec. 20 - NBC San Diego (9.26.21)
• Politics:
• Pelosi Delays Infrastructure Vote to Thursday As Democrats Race to Unite Caucus - Newsweek (9.26.21)
• House Budget Committee votes to pass the $3.5 trillion spending bill - CNN (9.25.21)
• The vote was 20 to 17 with Democratic Rep. Scott Peters of California joining Republicans to vote against the bill.
• Pharmaceutical industry backs Democratic holdouts on drug pricing plan - Open Secrets (9.17.21)
• Rep. Peters’ Statement on Drug Pricing Legislation - Office of Scott Peters (9.14.21)
• Reps. Peters, Schrader Unveil Plan to Cut Patients’ Drug Costs & Preserve America’s Ability to Produce Life-Saving Cures - Office of Scott Peters (9.14.21.)
• News:
• Social Democrats narrowly beat Merkel’s bloc in German vote - AP News (9.26.21)
• Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU  9.26.21 10:21pm):
• 231,820,895 Known Cases/15,443,445 28-Day New Cases
• 4,748,059 Known Deaths/248,433 28-Day New Deaths
• US COVID-19 Stats 
• CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
• American Academy of Pediatrics Children and COVID-19 Dashboard 
• JHU
• 42,931,354  Cases/4,051,237  28-Day New Cases
• 688,032 Deaths/50,026 28-Day New Deaths
• CDC Data Tracker:
• +130,638 New Cases/42,770,371 Known Cases 
• +2,177 New Deaths/684,884 Known Deaths
• 471,814,235 Doses Delivered
• 390,114,328 Doses Administered
• 213,456,787 Partially Vaccinated 
• 183,670,870 Fully Vaccinated 
• 55.3% of Total Population
• 64.7% of Population ≥ 12 Years of Age
• 66.6% of Population ≥ 18 Years of Age
• California COVID-19 Stats:
• State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
• Vaccination progress dashboard
• Coronavirus: Resources for Californians
• R-effective: 0.72
• San Diego County 
• Free Testing Sites and Schedule in San Diego
• Vaccination Locations San Diego
• Vaccination Dashboard
• COVID ActNow Daily Updates for San Diego Metro
• San Diego Unified School District COVID Dashboard
• CDC Data:
• 1,651,499 Fully Vaccinated 
• 49.5% of Total Population
• 57.7% of Population ≥ 12 Years of Age
• 58.1% of Population ≥ 18 Years of Age
• State Data:
• R-effective: 0.77
• County Data:
• 472 New Cases/354,391 Total Cases 
• 0 New Daily Deaths/4,051 Total Deaths
• +6 Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations
• +2 Day Over Day COVID-19 ICU Patients
• Universities:
• SDSU COVID-19, UCSD COVID-19, USD COVID-19, CSU San Marcos, PLNU