June 5, 2020
Friday
I spent an unhealthy amount of time watching scenes from around our country last night. In part, it was the consequence of using Twitter as a means to screen for data and commentary on COVID. But also, it is a tidal wave to which I feel drawn. The images of unprovoked, indifferent, and overtly hostile acts by public servants are infuriating. It is exhausting and challenging but impossible to pull away.
The longer-term questions we have to face are more complicated. So what now? How do we learn and evolve? How can each of us meaningfully contribute to the discussion and answers?
Some data to consider:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/03/10-things-we-know-about-race-and-policing-in-the-u-s/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/11/police-key-findings/
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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://rt.live/
North Carolina's Rt seems to have corrected in the last 24 hours, still greater than 1, though.
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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On our team call the other day, we had a lengthy discussion on antibody testing. Here is the list of FDA-approved serology lab tests - blood sample tests. Some have very high sensitivity and specificity, but it appears the most sensitive and specific are not point of care (i.e., they require a blood test sent to a lab). The paragraph at the top of the page is an excellent overview of factors that impact testing.
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-medical-devices/eua-authorized-serology-test-performance
Part 4 of a discussion of the impact of COVID on scientific publishing is a great perspective on how the world is changing.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01520-4
Here are some thoughtful comments from a physician at Harvard on the intersection of healthcare, the pandemic, and the protests.
https://twitter.com/AbraarKaran/status/1268335860719792129
This article is behind a paywall, but the tweet that points to it speaks to the concern I expressed on how data, at the state level, can vary depending on how illness is categorized, how reporting rates are defined, and how the timeliness of data can impact the statistics.
https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1268624158037925889
As a balding guy, I was not happy to see this data. Just remember, correlation does not equal causation, but still.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/bald-men-higher-risk-severe-case-covid-19-research-finds/
I have seen a few articles describing patients with prolonged COVID symptoms - lasting months. I am not sure what to make of these data. My initial thought is SARS-CoV-2 is triggering some sort of smoldering immune process in some patients. But this is conjecture on my part. I am sure more will come of this.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/covid-19-coronavirus-longterm-symptoms-months/612679/
Infographic of the day: capturing sentiment in graphs
https://twitter.com/DFisman/status/1268659957253226501/photo/1
Infographic of the day #2 - The virtue continuum. Thinking about the person you are and the person you want to be.
https://qeducation.sg/gp-resources/virtue-continuum/
---Bonus Round -- Perspectives
Amid everything going on, it is important to remember we often see snippets of information - recorded pictures and words are often just snapshots of more full stories. I suspect very few people want or expect to be a symbol of movements. My experience has demonstrated that people are people who want to live their life. I offer two links to Malcolm Gladwell's podcast on such stories from the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
The Browns of Brown v. Board of Education fame
http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/13-miss-buchanans-period-of-adjustment
Here is the backstory of the iconic picture of the Birmingham police officer, the dog, and the young black man during the 1963 Birmingham marches.
http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/14-the-foot-soldier-of-birmingham
Be sure to read the criticism of these types of podcasts to get a fuller picture of the genre.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/arts/podcasts-revisionist-history-malcolm-gladwell.html
Clean hands and sharp minds, team
-Adam
P.S. Back on Monday - I am taking the weekend off to decompress.
I spent an unhealthy amount of time watching scenes from around our country last night. In part, it was the consequence of using Twitter as a means to screen for data and commentary on COVID. But also, it is a tidal wave to which I feel drawn. The images of unprovoked, indifferent, and overtly hostile acts by public servants are infuriating. It is exhausting and challenging but impossible to pull away.
The longer-term questions we have to face are more complicated. So what now? How do we learn and evolve? How can each of us meaningfully contribute to the discussion and answers?
Some data to consider:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/03/10-things-we-know-about-race-and-policing-in-the-u-s/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/11/police-key-findings/
-------
State comparisons:
https://public.tableau.com/views/Coronavirus-ChangeovertimeintheUSA/2_Corona?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link
Rt data
https://rt.live/
North Carolina's Rt seems to have corrected in the last 24 hours, still greater than 1, though.
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.
---------------
On our team call the other day, we had a lengthy discussion on antibody testing. Here is the list of FDA-approved serology lab tests - blood sample tests. Some have very high sensitivity and specificity, but it appears the most sensitive and specific are not point of care (i.e., they require a blood test sent to a lab). The paragraph at the top of the page is an excellent overview of factors that impact testing.
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-medical-devices/eua-authorized-serology-test-performance
Part 4 of a discussion of the impact of COVID on scientific publishing is a great perspective on how the world is changing.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01520-4
Here are some thoughtful comments from a physician at Harvard on the intersection of healthcare, the pandemic, and the protests.
https://twitter.com/AbraarKaran/status/1268335860719792129
This article is behind a paywall, but the tweet that points to it speaks to the concern I expressed on how data, at the state level, can vary depending on how illness is categorized, how reporting rates are defined, and how the timeliness of data can impact the statistics.
https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1268624158037925889
As a balding guy, I was not happy to see this data. Just remember, correlation does not equal causation, but still.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/bald-men-higher-risk-severe-case-covid-19-research-finds/
I have seen a few articles describing patients with prolonged COVID symptoms - lasting months. I am not sure what to make of these data. My initial thought is SARS-CoV-2 is triggering some sort of smoldering immune process in some patients. But this is conjecture on my part. I am sure more will come of this.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/covid-19-coronavirus-longterm-symptoms-months/612679/
Infographic of the day: capturing sentiment in graphs
https://twitter.com/DFisman/status/1268659957253226501/photo/1
Infographic of the day #2 - The virtue continuum. Thinking about the person you are and the person you want to be.
https://qeducation.sg/gp-resources/virtue-continuum/
---Bonus Round -- Perspectives
Amid everything going on, it is important to remember we often see snippets of information - recorded pictures and words are often just snapshots of more full stories. I suspect very few people want or expect to be a symbol of movements. My experience has demonstrated that people are people who want to live their life. I offer two links to Malcolm Gladwell's podcast on such stories from the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
The Browns of Brown v. Board of Education fame
http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/13-miss-buchanans-period-of-adjustment
Here is the backstory of the iconic picture of the Birmingham police officer, the dog, and the young black man during the 1963 Birmingham marches.
http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/14-the-foot-soldier-of-birmingham
Be sure to read the criticism of these types of podcasts to get a fuller picture of the genre.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/arts/podcasts-revisionist-history-malcolm-gladwell.html
Clean hands and sharp minds, team
-Adam
P.S. Back on Monday - I am taking the weekend off to decompress.
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