Baby Giraffe Approx 2 Hours After Birth (Taken 11.29.21) |
I was so excited about the giraffe birth yesterday that I didn't even mention that we had this zippy situation where Darren picked me up from the San Diego Zoo, we rushed home, we dressed up (and I put on makeup for the maybe the 4th time in two years) so we could get Nova to derby and us to the Casbah staff photo shoot, all while I was trying to get my giraffe photos and videos to my pal at NBC, which didn't actually work, but I tried.
But I have to talk about the Casbah photo shoot because it felt so nice to be among almost every coworker. I know I've been absent. I know I've been avoidant. But when there are no customers in the bar and I know we're all vaccinated and the fans are on and we're all chill, I could be a semblance of old me among old friends and happy and not worrying about masks or ventilation or drinking before the kid is asleep...another major thing I've avoided all pandemic even though one beer and one shot is certainly not gonna spin me into a bad step-mom vibe.
Compare that to today, where I was simply enjoying an afternoon trip back at the Zoo with Darren when his cousin called frazzled that she'd missed yet another flight. This is the cousin whose job it was to fly to San Diego as an escort for Nova on Saturday but who decided to purposely create a six hour layover so they could explore Phoenix after they'd already missed their first flight which had a scheduled layover in Chicago. It hurts my brain thinking about it. So she was at the airport with 5 hours to kill and was asking advice on places to go IN TIJUANA. WHAT?! Who thinks you can just casually cross into Mexico and back and go sight-seeing or shopping or whatever and get back with enough check-in time to catch a flight?
So yeah, we got sucked into the hurricane, picked her up, treated her to dinner (not quite sure how that worked out), walked around Old Town to kill time, and dropped her off in time for a reasonable person to check in. I was pretty much a day behind in work, but I'm just gonna backdate this post by a couple hours so this post doesn't get mixed up with Wednesday's data dump.
Now that I'm wrapping up, I'll say that about 70% of my email today was asking for money. Super annoying. I'll also say that omicron is stealing all the headlines, so I've included a lot of links below, but the long story short is we don't know what we don't know, and we only know what we know. But what is getting annoying is people, including Dr Walensky and Jeff Zients, repeatedly saying the virus is "unpredictable." It really isn't. We follow mitigations as best we can and in regions of high compliance the virus stays at bay and where people fight mitigations and deny the virus is airborne and that the virus and subsequent variants are hoaxes and that vaccines aren't necessary/effective/whatever we see consistent resurgences of the virus and continued high hospitalizations and deaths. The waves, at least now, are actually entirely predictable. In my opinion, vaccine mandate deadlines can't come soon enough.
Stay safe out there.
- COVID-19:
- The First Year of COVID: A College Degree Was ‘an Insurance Policy’ Against Death. A new Voice of San Diego examination of death certificates from the first year of the pandemic reveals the extent to which the virus disproportionately killed San Diegans with lower levels of education and income. - Voice of San Diego (11.30.21)
- Fact Sheet: Omicron Variant - CDPH (11.28.21)
- Dr. Eric Topol expects Covid vaccines will protect against severe disease from omicron infection - CNBC (11.30.21) -- note: Jim Cramer is garbage but Dr. Eric Topol has been one of the best voices during the pandemic.
- What Doctors Need to Know About Omicron — Picture to become clearer in 2 weeks, but here's what we know now MedPage Today (11.29.21)
- Doctors hope Omicron causes milder cases of Covid — but it’s still too early to say - STAT News (11.30.21)
- Odds of Testing Positive for SARS-CoV-2 Following Receipt of 3 vs 2 Doses of the BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccine - JAMA (11.30.21)
- The findings of this study suggest that the waning of vaccine-induced protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection seems to be counteracted in the short-term by a third dose and further monitoring is needed to determine the duration of immunity following the booster.
- FDA Panel Narrowly Backs Merck's COVID Pill — Questions about efficacy, safety were chief among concerns, regardless of how members voted - MedPage Today (11.30.21)
- WHO
- WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the Member State Information Session on the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2
- WHO advice for international traffic in relation to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (B.1.1.529)
- News:
- Court upholds California ban on high-capacity magazines - AP News (11.30.21)
- Attorney General Bonta Secures Victory in Lawsuit Challenging California’s Ban on Large-Capacity Magazines - Office of Rob Bonta, Attorney General
- California Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Respond to Fatal Shooting of Four Children, One Adult in California - Moms Demand Action (11.30.21)
- Michigan Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Respond to Shooting at Oxford High School Where Nine People Were Shot, Three Students Fatally - Moms Demand Action (11.30.21)
- SANDAG Released the 2021 Regional Plan and Environment Impact Report. They're only 64 pages and 28 pages, respectively, but the appendices are exhaustive...like the Active Transportation appendix which is 176 pages.
- San Diego City Council approves vaccine mandate for workers, contractors - kpbs/CIty News Service (11.29.21)
- Government:
- White House
- Remarks by President Biden on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
- Remarks by President Biden Before Air Force One Departure
- Remarks by President Biden at Signing of Veterans Bills
- Bills Signed: S. 769, S. 894, S. 1031, and S. 1095
- Remarks by Vice President Harris at a Build Back Better Virtual Rally
- Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jen Psaki
- Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials
- Statement by NSC Spokesperson Emily Horne on National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Call with Romanian Presidential Security Advisor Ion Oprisor
- FACT SHEET: Virtual Engagement with Indigenous Women Leaders in Preparation for the Fourth Convening of the Trilateral Working Group on Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls
- President Biden Announces Defense Acquisition Nominee
- A Proclamation on World AIDS Day, 2021
- A Proclamation on National Impaired Driving Prevention Month, 2021
- FDA
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Actively Working to Investigate, Address Potential Impacts of Omicron Variant; Urges Vaccination and Boosters - FDA (11.30.21)
- Dept of Defense
- State Dept
- U.S. Delegation Meeting with Taliban Representatives
- Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg
- Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Transatlantic Quad Foreign Ministers
- The United States and Egypt Sign New Memorandum of Understanding on Cultural Property Protection
- Announcement of Visa Restrictions Against Cuban Officials
- Justice
- Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 12.1.21 12:21am):
- 262,857,019 Known Cases/14,790,382 28-Day New Cases
- 5,216,137 Known Deaths/201,089 28-Day New Deaths
- US COVID-19 Stats
- CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
- American Academy of Pediatrics Children and COVID-19 Dashboard
- JHU
- 48,557,708 Cases/2,360,861 28 Day New Cases
- 780,230 Deaths/30,415 28-Day New Deaths
- CDC Data Tracker:
- +119,404 New Cases/48,377,531 Known Cases
- +1,661 New Deaths/778,489 Known Deaths
- 573,238,255 Doses Delivered
- 460,773,508 Doses Administered
- 233,207,582 Partially Vaccinated
- 197,058,988 Fully Vaccinated
- 59.4% of Total Population
- 63.1% of Population ≥ 12 Years of Age
- 69.4% of Population ≥ 18 Years of Age
- 41,126,064 Boosters (20.9%)
- California COVID-19 Stats:
- State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
- Vaccination progress dashboard
- Coronavirus: Resources for Californians
- R-effective: 0.87
- 69,227,965 Doses Delivered/58,286,182 Doses Administered
- 3,253,778 Partially Vaccinated/25,473,856 Fully Vaccinated
- 4,667 New Cases/4,806,510 Total Cases (9.5 new cases/100k)
- 56 New Deaths/73,712 Total Deaths (0.1 new deaths/100k)
- 3.0% 7-day test positivity rate
- 3,540 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (+86 patients, +2.5% from prior day)
- 914 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (26 patients, +2.9% from prior day)
- 2,027 ICU beds available (-11 from prior day)
- San Diego County
California R-eff Map. San Diego is FINALLY GREEN! Meaning cases "likely decreasing" |
- State Data:
- R-effective: 0.69
- 1,828 New Cases/384,853 Total Cases
- 3.6% Daily Positivity
- 10 Deaths/4,335 Total Deaths
- 312 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (+22 patients, +7.6% from prior day)
- 88 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (+5 patients, +6.0% from prior day)
- 231 ICU beds available (+14 from prior day)
- County Data:
- 567 New Cases/384,745 Total Cases
- 5 New Daily Deaths/4,340 Total Deaths
- 4.1% Daily Test Positivity/3.8% 7-day average
- +60 Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations
- +2 Day Over Day COVID-19 ICU Patients
- Universities:
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