Tuesday, June 2, 2020
The vacuum of empathetic and savvy leadership profoundly saddens and angers me. Though there are exceptions, it is painful to see so many examples of tensions being stoked rather than calmed. Solutions are hard. Not trying is immoral. Fundraising, political engagement (at all levels of government), and voting are the best solutions to ensure our future leaders can handle a crisis or, in this case, overlapping crises.
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State comparisons:
https://public.tableau.com/views/Coronavirus-ChangeovertimeintheUSA/2_Corona?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link
Rt data
https://public.tableau.com/shared/7FH637YGW?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link
- still not updated from 5/16 - Here is the other source https://rt.live/
FT data is still the best visualization I have found for country comparisons.
https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&cumulative=0&logScale=1&perMillion=0&values=deaths
The NY Times has hotspot infographics - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?referringSource=articleShare
Our world in data has interactive features.
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?yScale=log&zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-04-16..&country=USA~GBR~CAN~BRA~AUS~IND~DEU~FRA~ITA~SWE&deathsMetric=true&dailyFreq=true&aligned=true&perCapita=true&smoothing=7
The tableau data is from The COVID Tracking Project, which compiles and rates state-reported data. Please review https://covidtracking.com/ to understand the quality of the data.
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More data from remdesivir - it appears to be effective in patients with moderate disease. This is the slow, iterative data we get - in this case, expanding our understanding of the candidate patient populations.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/01/gileads-remdesivir-shows-some-benefit-in-patients-with-moderate-covid-19-new-data-show/
STAT News also offers this video on how vaccines trials work - it is 1:40, so a quick watch.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/27/researchers-covid-19-vaccine-trials/
There are increasing discussions about whether there is an airborne component to SARS-CoV-2 spread. Here is an editorial comment from JAMA on the practicality of air disinfection. The technical details are, well, technical, and the vocabulary around what constitutes airborne spread is a bit muddled. However, the messages I take away are: minimizing spread in closed, indoor spaces is a combination of screening, masking everyone (in such environments), and reducing exposure time, as practical. While there are some ways to "clean the air," there is no data yet to suggest any method is either clinically effective or affordable. I suspect this is going to be a recurrent topic.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766821
If you had asked me to rank the things I would see overlapping in my lifetime, a Wired article on the ACE2 enzyme would be way at the bottom of that list. Perhaps I should not be surprised - medical journals have IT articles. No reason IT-related journals can't reciprocate.
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-ace2-the-enzyme-at-the-center-of-the-covid-19-mystery/
More on the protest-driven spread of Coronavirus along with a discussion of the clashing responsibilities of public protest and public health.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/protests-pandemic/612460/
Infographic of the day: A map to everything in our solar system. (Plan your route of escape?)
https://tabletopwhale.com/2019/06/10/the-solar-system.html
Infographic of the day #2 - Giraffes have regional pelage patterns.
https://i.redd.it/u6sebj7l6ch31.jpg
Points to learn:
-The word pelage.
-There is a subset of the world that believe Giraffes are not real: https://www.reddit.com/r/Giraffesdontexist/
-Giraffes have unusually high genetic variation, as compared to other large mammals, between their various geographic areas. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2254591/
------Bonus Round - More on the link of ideas between generations
Saul Alinsky's name has resurfaced in the last few days. He was a community activist and political theorist in Chicago in the 1960s, who focused on how to activate and organize across social strata in the US. His books and ideas underpinned the movement from protest to political engagement. Interestingly, Hillary Clinton wrote her college thesis on his ideas and methods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky
http://www.openculture.com/2020/06/saul-alinskys-13rules-for-creating-meaningful-social-change.html
Noam Chomsky is hardly obscure and can be divisive. He has so many skills across philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science, and political activism - it is challenging to sum him up succinctly. Much like my Wired article (above), I have encountered his writings and ideas in almost every substantive journal or magazine I read (including Wired) for 20+ years. And he is still going at age 91. Here is a bit of a background and some of his thoughts on engaging the world (from 2017)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/noam-chomsky-explains-the-best-way-for-ordinary-people-to-make-change-in-the-world-even-when-it-seems-daunting.html
The vacuum of empathetic and savvy leadership profoundly saddens and angers me. Though there are exceptions, it is painful to see so many examples of tensions being stoked rather than calmed. Solutions are hard. Not trying is immoral. Fundraising, political engagement (at all levels of government), and voting are the best solutions to ensure our future leaders can handle a crisis or, in this case, overlapping crises.
-----------
State comparisons:
https://public.tableau.com/views/Coronavirus-ChangeovertimeintheUSA/2_Corona?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link
Rt data
https://public.tableau.com/shared/7FH637YGW?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link
- still not updated from 5/16 - Here is the other source https://rt.live/
FT data is still the best visualization I have found for country comparisons.
https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&cumulative=0&logScale=1&perMillion=0&values=deaths
The NY Times has hotspot infographics - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?referringSource=articleShare
Our world in data has interactive features.
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?yScale=log&zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-04-16..&country=USA~GBR~CAN~BRA~AUS~IND~DEU~FRA~ITA~SWE&deathsMetric=true&dailyFreq=true&aligned=true&perCapita=true&smoothing=7
The tableau data is from The COVID Tracking Project, which compiles and rates state-reported data. Please review https://covidtracking.com/ to understand the quality of the data.
-----
More data from remdesivir - it appears to be effective in patients with moderate disease. This is the slow, iterative data we get - in this case, expanding our understanding of the candidate patient populations.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/01/gileads-remdesivir-shows-some-benefit-in-patients-with-moderate-covid-19-new-data-show/
STAT News also offers this video on how vaccines trials work - it is 1:40, so a quick watch.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/27/researchers-covid-19-vaccine-trials/
There are increasing discussions about whether there is an airborne component to SARS-CoV-2 spread. Here is an editorial comment from JAMA on the practicality of air disinfection. The technical details are, well, technical, and the vocabulary around what constitutes airborne spread is a bit muddled. However, the messages I take away are: minimizing spread in closed, indoor spaces is a combination of screening, masking everyone (in such environments), and reducing exposure time, as practical. While there are some ways to "clean the air," there is no data yet to suggest any method is either clinically effective or affordable. I suspect this is going to be a recurrent topic.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766821
If you had asked me to rank the things I would see overlapping in my lifetime, a Wired article on the ACE2 enzyme would be way at the bottom of that list. Perhaps I should not be surprised - medical journals have IT articles. No reason IT-related journals can't reciprocate.
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-ace2-the-enzyme-at-the-center-of-the-covid-19-mystery/
More on the protest-driven spread of Coronavirus along with a discussion of the clashing responsibilities of public protest and public health.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/protests-pandemic/612460/
Infographic of the day: A map to everything in our solar system. (Plan your route of escape?)
https://tabletopwhale.com/2019/06/10/the-solar-system.html
Infographic of the day #2 - Giraffes have regional pelage patterns.
https://i.redd.it/u6sebj7l6ch31.jpg
Points to learn:
-The word pelage.
-There is a subset of the world that believe Giraffes are not real: https://www.reddit.com/r/Giraffesdontexist/
-Giraffes have unusually high genetic variation, as compared to other large mammals, between their various geographic areas. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2254591/
------Bonus Round - More on the link of ideas between generations
Saul Alinsky's name has resurfaced in the last few days. He was a community activist and political theorist in Chicago in the 1960s, who focused on how to activate and organize across social strata in the US. His books and ideas underpinned the movement from protest to political engagement. Interestingly, Hillary Clinton wrote her college thesis on his ideas and methods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky
http://www.openculture.com/2020/06/saul-alinskys-13rules-for-creating-meaningful-social-change.html
Noam Chomsky is hardly obscure and can be divisive. He has so many skills across philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science, and political activism - it is challenging to sum him up succinctly. Much like my Wired article (above), I have encountered his writings and ideas in almost every substantive journal or magazine I read (including Wired) for 20+ years. And he is still going at age 91. Here is a bit of a background and some of his thoughts on engaging the world (from 2017)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/noam-chomsky-explains-the-best-way-for-ordinary-people-to-make-change-in-the-world-even-when-it-seems-daunting.html
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