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| Squirrel Monkey at Wildlife Explorers Basecamp at San Diego Zoo (Taken 3.15.22) |
I am trying to take full advantage of the perfect weather San Diego has been having to get out to the San Diego Zoo as often as possible before it gets too insanely crowded to tolerate and before we potentially see COVID cases rise back up. I'm hoping it doesn't happen, but the US went from about 10% of cases being the "stealth variant" to about 25% of cases in one week, we still have far too many people who are unvaccinated altogether or others who are not boosted, too many unvaccinated kids, and schools are all dropping mask requirements in a matter of weeks, if they haven't already. Feels like 4th of July all over again. It's also important to consider that while vaccination rates are actually pretty high in San Diego, more people are testing at home, if at all, so those cases go unreported, and if people can't miss work or stay home and isolate, you don't know if that checker at the grocery with a cough or that server at your favorite restaurant's sore throat is just normal allergy stuff, or if they've got COVID and are powering through. Like I said in my other post, I have a lot of shows I'm looking forward to, but I'm not committed to anything -- if it's too risky and the local situation deteriorates, I'll go right back to being a hermit at home.
That said, I did make it back to the Zoo today, but only for about an hour, which was long enough to see the mandrills, get the turacos to sing, and then wander again through a couple of the insect houses and climb the rope structures to see the squirrel monkeys and coati before they closed. I don't know if I'll make it back on Thursday, but I'm sure I'll be back in no time at all.
Stay safe out there.
- COVID-19:
- County Introduces New COVID-19 Data Reporting Tools - County News Center (3.16.22)
- Op/Ed From Minneapolis But Applicable Everywhere: Minnesotans should put their masks back on. But not necessarily forever. - StarTribune (3.15.22)
- CDC: Omicron subvariant accounts for 23% of new cases; 3 more COVID-19 updates - Becker's Hospital Review (3.16.22)
- As COVID cases, hospitalizations rise in UK, so do questions - Becker's Hospital Review (3.16.22)
- Bell's Palsy, Other Rare Events Not Linked With COVID-19 Vaccines — Immune-mediated neurologic events increased after COVID infection, but not after vaccination - MedPage Today (3.16.22)
- Severe COVID-19 tied to long-term depression, anxiety - CIDRAP (3.16.22)
- No Underlying Conditions in 63% of Young Kids Hospitalized During Omicron — Hospitalizations in infants, toddlers increased fivefold versus Delta wave - Medage Today (3.15.22)
- Politics:
- Zelenskyy pleads for help in impassioned speech to Congress - AP News (3.16.22)
- News:
- Influenza Cases Increasing in San Diego County - County News Center (3.16.22)
- Secret Service report shows growing incel terrorism threat against women - CBS News (3.16.22)
- Hot Yoga Tallahassee: A Case Stufy of Misogynistic Extremism - Secret Service (March 2022)
- Federal Reserve approves first interest rate hike in more than three years, sees six more ahead - CNBC (3.16.22)
- Surge of HIV, tuberculosis and COVID feared amid war in Ukraine. Infectious diseases are likely to spread as Russia’s invasion displaces people and disrupts health services. - nature (3.15.22)
- Government:
- White House
- Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, March 16, 2022
- Remarks by President Biden Celebrating the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act
- Fact Sheet: Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
- Remarks by President Biden on the Assistance the United States is Providing to Ukraine
- Fact Sheet on U.S. Security Assistance for Ukraine
- Memorandum on the Delegation of Authority Under Section 552(c)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
- Memorandum on the Delegation of Authority Under Section 506(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
- Statement by NSC Spokesperson Emily Horne on National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s call with National Security Advisor Thanos Dokos of Greece
- Statement by NSC Spokesperson Emily Horne on National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Call with Nikolay Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council
- FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Resources for Historically Black Colleges and Universities that Have Recently Experienced Bomb Threats
- Statement by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Honoring the Victims of the Fatal Shootings in Atlanta
- Remarks by Vice President Harris During a Conversation with Current and Former Members of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team
- Dept of Defense
- Russian Troops Bogged Down in Face of Stiff Ukraine Resistance, Says DOD Official. Russian advances continue to be stalled near Kyiv, the Ukraine capital, and those forces have not made any significant advances toward the city, said a senior defense department official who briefed the media today.
- Biden Signs Order Transferring Arms to Ukrainian Defenders
- NATO Defense Ministers Urge Changes to Alliance Collective Defense. Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine has changed the security environment, and the North Atlantic Alliance will change, too, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at the conclusion of a meeting of alliance defense ministers in Brussels.
- State Dept
- 2022 Roadmap for the Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Online Harassment and Abuse
- $1 Billion in New U.S. Security Assistance for Ukraine This Week
- Welcoming the ICJ Order Directing the Russian Federation to Immediately Suspend Military Operations in Ukraine
- Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Steve Inskeep of NPR’s Morning Edition
- Dept of Justice
- U.S. Departments of Justice and Treasury Launch Multilateral Russian Oligarch Task Force
- Five Individuals Charged Variously with Stalking, Harassing and Spying on U.S. Residents on Behalf of the PRC Secret Police
- Justice Department Applauds Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act
- Naval Flight Officer Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Conspiring to Violate Firearms Law and Lying During Security Clearance Background Investigation
- Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks at White House Event on Making Communities Safer, Including the Campuses of HBCUs
- Justice Department Announces Civil Settlement in Cases Arising from 2018 School Shooting in Parkland, Florida
- Justice Department, EPA Propose Settlement to Resolve Federal Hazardous Waste and Oil Spill Prevention Violations on the North Slope of Alaska
- DHS
- Secretary Mayorkas Designates Afghanistan for Temporary Protected Status
- DHS Remembers the One-Year Anniversary of the Atlanta Spa Shootings
- Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 3.16.22 7:20pm):
- 463,663,236 Known Cases/46,150,266 28-Day New Cases
- 6,057,996 Known Deaths/215,969 28-Day New Deaths
- US COVID-19 Stats
- CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
- American Academy of Pediatrics Children and COVID-19 Dashboard
- JHU
- 79,631,708 Cases/1,514,307 28 Day New Cases
- 968,329 Deaths/38,929 28-Day New Deaths
- CDC Data Tracker:
- 25,913 New Cases/79,445,322 Known Cases
- 1,364 New Deaths/964,831 Known Deaths
- California COVID-19 Stats:
- State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
- Vaccination progress dashboard
- Coronavirus: Resources for Californians
- R-effective: 0.8
- 3,482 New Cases/8,442,537 Total Cases (7.2 new cases/100k)
- 135 New Deaths/86,927 Total Deaths (0.2 new deaths/100k)
- 1.4% 7-day test positivity rate
- 2,227 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-36 patients, -1.6% from prior day)
- 400 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-19 patients, -4.5% from prior day)
- 2,053 ICU beds available (-148 from prior day)
- 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
- State Data:
- R-effective: 0.67
- 959 New Cases/746,474 Total Cases
- 2.4% Daily Positivity
- 8 Deaths/5,116 Total Deaths
- 219 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (-2 patients, -0.9% from prior day)
- 42 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (-5 patients, -10.6% from prior day)
- 223 ICU beds available (-15 from prior day)
- County Data:
- COVID-19 Watch
- COVID-19 Weekly Update
- Influenza Watch
- 60 New Cases/1,721 Total Cases
- 0 New Deaths/4 Deaths
- 0 Outbreaks
- 375 New Cases/745,684 Total Cases
- Weekly Case rate: 89.0 per 100,000 residents overall
- 10.1 Case Rate (7 Day Daily Average with 7 Day Lag)
- 11.1 fully vaccinated people
- 11.3 for fully vaccinated + boosted people
- 25.6 for not fully vaccinated San Diegans.
- 7 New Daily Deaths/5,133 Total Deaths
- 4.1% Daily Test Positivity/2.7% 7-day average/3.6% 7-day average after 7-day lag/3.7% Test Positivity (14-day average)
- 75.9% Case Investigation
- +1 Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations
- +7 Day Over Day COVID-19 ICU Patients
- -7.7% Day Over Day COVID-19 Hospitalizations (219 patients. -70% over 30 days)
- 27 % ICU Capacity (42 patients. -69% over 30 days)
- 48 Staffed ICU Beds Available
- 50 Active Community Outbreaks
- Universities:
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