CoVid-19: "Pandemic Is Over" | Bivalent Boosters Available Everywhere |

Kaja at the San Diego Zoo (Taken 9.18.22)

So apparently Joe Biden went on TV and said that the pandemic is over. I think we like to extrapolate and say thread what he really meant but you can't say something so declarative and then still expect legislative funding, or people to wear masks, or for schools to be able to mandate vaccinations. NPR did a similar story and I'm not even going to link it because I'm so sick of hearing from Monica Gandhi as their primary source when the rest of their story has at least six other experts who refute her. But whatever. I guess it's over. As such, reporting is really unreliable and incomplete, so this may be my final stat post unless things dramatically change. 

Meanwhile, I had a pretty good week. I worked at the Balboa Theatre, I went to the Zoo a bunch, and I got to see Wilco at the OAT on Saturday night with my sister. This week is going to be busy with work because, as always after Labor Day, things pick up and the calendars become more packed. 

I guess we're all out for ourselves now. Stay safe out there. 

• COVID-19:
• Bivalent Boosters Available and Encouraged - County News Center (9.15.22)
• Johns Hopkins is reducing its COVID data tracking - Axios (9.14.22)
• End of Covid-19 'in Sight'? - Statista (9.15.22)
• Biden: ‘The pandemic is over’ - CNN (9.18.22)
  “The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with Covid. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. It’s – but the pandemic is over,” Biden said.
• Politics:
• GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham introduces 15-week abortion ban in the Senate - npr/KPBS (9.13.22)
• California Moves To Further Protect Access To Abortions: "California state launched a new website to provide resources for women to get reproductive care — no matter where they live. The site includes information on your right to abortion in California, and it includes information if you’re traveling to California from another state that has restricted access to an abortion." - Governor Newsom
• Dobbs Decision Sets Off Wave of Female Voter Registration - STATISTA (9.13.22)
• Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU 9.18.22 8:21pm):
• 611,960,233 Known Cases/16,125,153 28-Day New Cases
• 6,526,410 Known Deaths/54,504 28-Day New Deaths
• US COVID-19 Stats 
• CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Data Tracker
• American Academy of Pediatrics Children and COVID-19 Dashboard 
• JHU
• 95,658,236 Cases/2,112,260 28 Day New Cases
• 1,053,419 Deaths/12,721 28-Day New Deaths
• CDC Data Tracker:
• 60,831 New Cases/95,412,766 Known Cases 
• 391 New Deaths/1,047,741 Known Deaths
• 4,311 New Admissions/25,873 Current Hospitalizations
• California COVID-19 Stats:
• State of California Safe Schools For All Hub
• Vaccination progress dashboard
• Coronavirus: Resources for Californians
• R-effective: 0.9
• 4,854 New Cases/10,354,899 Total Cases (12.1 new cases/100k)
• 28 New Deaths/94,747 Total Deaths (0.1 new deaths/100k)
• 6.2% 7-day test positivity rate
• 2,580 COVID-19 Hospitalizations (-109 patients, -4.1% from prior day)
• 316 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized in CA (-13 patients, -4.0% from prior day)
• 1,992 ICU beds available (-47 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: 0.92
• 383 New Cases/917,229 Total Cases
• 6.0% Daily Positivity
• 1 Deaths/5,479 Total Deaths
• 207 COVID-19 hospitalized patients (-14 patients, -6.3% from prior day)
• 26 COVID-19 ICU hospitalized patients (+2 patients, +8.3% from prior day)
• 229 ICU beds available (+21 from prior day)
• County Data:
• 473 New Cases/918,279 Total Cases 
• Case rate: 14.1 per 100,000 residents overall
• 10.51 for fully vaccinated people 
• 17.59 for fully vaccinated + boosted people 
• 35.77 for not fully vaccinated San Diegans.
• 4 New Daily Deaths/5,483  Total Deaths
• 4.6% Daily Test Positivity/7.4% 7-day average/5.7% Test Positivity (14-day average)
• 21 New COVID-19 Hospitalizations Since Last Report
• 207 COVID-19 Hospitalizations. -33% over 30 days
• 26 ICU Patients. -24% over 30 days
• 42 Staffed ICU Beds Available 
• 20 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
• Universities:
• SDSU COVID-19, UCSD COVID-19, USD COVID-19, CSU San Marcos, PLNU