Friday, May 1, 2020
Recently, I was reminded that my selection of articles is inherently biased — my methods of finding information skew the types of materials I share. While I attempt to weed through the media for information that helps understand the nuance and complexity of this crisis, it is a sample, and it is curated. Please keep reading your sources and challenge me if you feel I have missed something.
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Latest data
FT data (No change in the presentation)
https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
Death vs. Cases in the US.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-cases-deaths?country=US
An estimate of the effective reproduction number by state (not updated daily)
https://rt.live/
What is this analysis about? http://systrom.com/topic/coronavirus/
Rt data continues to improve week to week, but FT data on new cases in the US has plateaued. It will be interesting to see if the Rt data is able to predict a drop in the 7-day average cases and what the lag between the two analyses is.
Per our Q&A Discussion yesterday, Nature has a graphical guide to the vaccine development for COVID. This article is an outstanding read. MARK TAYLOR THIS IS FOR YOU!!!
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01221-y
And in follow up to the vaccines, here is an excellent visual guide on the evolving (mutating?) coronavirus genome from the NYT.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/science/coronavirus-mutations.html
And in follow up to the visual guides, here is an excellent twitter discussion on the bias that is possible in visual representations - i.e., just because someone draws it, doesn't mean it is a complete representation of reality.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1255838147713347586
I can't imagine Anne Arundel County, Maryland, is the only county in the country with a robust tracing program. Still, I found this article with a good, granular overview of track and trace for COVID. AAC is one county in one state with 1500 cases and requires a lot of human resources.
https://www.capitalgazette.com/coronavirus/ac-cn-coronavirus-contact-tracing-anne-arundel-20200429-7g2ryvsm3re4rb7sosbtvzippe-story.html
And one more story about Maryland. Here is an article that is kind of hard to wrap your mind around but illustrates the difficulties of federalism when it doesn't work well.
https://www.businessinsider.com/maryland-national-guard-police-guard-coronavirus-tests-at-secret-location-2020-4
I have no idea if this blog post modeling risk of transmission in different environments is accurate. However, it demonstrates that modeling with applied mathematics can be interesting and practical. Enjoy! (as the reader who submitted this one often says to me.)
https://medium.com/swlh/so-youre-going-outside-a-physics-based-coronavirus-infection-risk-estimator-for-leaving-the-house-d7dcae2746c0
Some interesting clinical observations from Dr. Topf, on his blog this time
http://pbfluids.com/2020/04/covid-typical-admission-cta-types-1-3/
Infographic of the day. I couldn't find the source on this one, but it seemed to describe what sometimes happens in my medical office well enough. We get a lot of the "I know my body/Natural/Toxin" comments.
https://i.redd.it/y67cz69daxv41.jpg
-------- Bonus Round - Remixing Edition
You must play with the Citizen DJ website. What a great idea and means by which to get people engaged with source materials from the Library of Congress.
http://citizendj.labs.loc.gov.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/?l11_uid=66143
Here is a fascinating story of how out of the box thinking on analog devices. The story of the "dance movement font type" for IBM Selectric typewriters in the 1970s is cool.
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/industries/selectric-typewriter-dancers/
This story makes me grateful that I can have 7000+ fonts on my Mac without having to store a closet full of typewriter parts.
https://munk.org/typecast/2013/11/03/gp-ibm-selectric-typeball-catalog-font-styles/
Clean hands and sharp minds
-AW
Recently, I was reminded that my selection of articles is inherently biased — my methods of finding information skew the types of materials I share. While I attempt to weed through the media for information that helps understand the nuance and complexity of this crisis, it is a sample, and it is curated. Please keep reading your sources and challenge me if you feel I have missed something.
----------
Latest data
FT data (No change in the presentation)
https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
Death vs. Cases in the US.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-cases-deaths?country=US
An estimate of the effective reproduction number by state (not updated daily)
https://rt.live/
What is this analysis about? http://systrom.com/topic/coronavirus/
Rt data continues to improve week to week, but FT data on new cases in the US has plateaued. It will be interesting to see if the Rt data is able to predict a drop in the 7-day average cases and what the lag between the two analyses is.
Per our Q&A Discussion yesterday, Nature has a graphical guide to the vaccine development for COVID. This article is an outstanding read. MARK TAYLOR THIS IS FOR YOU!!!
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01221-y
And in follow up to the vaccines, here is an excellent visual guide on the evolving (mutating?) coronavirus genome from the NYT.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/science/coronavirus-mutations.html
And in follow up to the visual guides, here is an excellent twitter discussion on the bias that is possible in visual representations - i.e., just because someone draws it, doesn't mean it is a complete representation of reality.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1255838147713347586
I can't imagine Anne Arundel County, Maryland, is the only county in the country with a robust tracing program. Still, I found this article with a good, granular overview of track and trace for COVID. AAC is one county in one state with 1500 cases and requires a lot of human resources.
https://www.capitalgazette.com/coronavirus/ac-cn-coronavirus-contact-tracing-anne-arundel-20200429-7g2ryvsm3re4rb7sosbtvzippe-story.html
And one more story about Maryland. Here is an article that is kind of hard to wrap your mind around but illustrates the difficulties of federalism when it doesn't work well.
https://www.businessinsider.com/maryland-national-guard-police-guard-coronavirus-tests-at-secret-location-2020-4
I have no idea if this blog post modeling risk of transmission in different environments is accurate. However, it demonstrates that modeling with applied mathematics can be interesting and practical. Enjoy! (as the reader who submitted this one often says to me.)
https://medium.com/swlh/so-youre-going-outside-a-physics-based-coronavirus-infection-risk-estimator-for-leaving-the-house-d7dcae2746c0
Some interesting clinical observations from Dr. Topf, on his blog this time
http://pbfluids.com/2020/04/covid-typical-admission-cta-types-1-3/
Infographic of the day. I couldn't find the source on this one, but it seemed to describe what sometimes happens in my medical office well enough. We get a lot of the "I know my body/Natural/Toxin" comments.
https://i.redd.it/y67cz69daxv41.jpg
-------- Bonus Round - Remixing Edition
You must play with the Citizen DJ website. What a great idea and means by which to get people engaged with source materials from the Library of Congress.
http://citizendj.labs.loc.gov.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/?l11_uid=66143
Here is a fascinating story of how out of the box thinking on analog devices. The story of the "dance movement font type" for IBM Selectric typewriters in the 1970s is cool.
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/industries/selectric-typewriter-dancers/
This story makes me grateful that I can have 7000+ fonts on my Mac without having to store a closet full of typewriter parts.
https://munk.org/typecast/2013/11/03/gp-ibm-selectric-typeball-catalog-font-styles/
Clean hands and sharp minds
-AW
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