Monday, July 6, 2020
We spent the holiday weekend cleaning and organizing, which was a great exercise in "hard heads and soft hearts." Getting rid of twenty years' worth of boxes filled with souvenirs, notebooks, and stuff is hard. Figuring out how to best "curate" the essential things from childhood, college, and earlier in life is even harder. What I found most interesting is how documentary evidence demonstrates how faulty memory can be. Report cards from elementary and middle school tell a much different story about my "successes" than I seem to remember (except for gym. I remember the trauma of middle school gym very clearly). To be sure, and having reviewed the data, I am even happier I am no longer in middle school now than when I graduated middle school then. I guess some memories are spot-on.
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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
FT data - the second graph down now has state-level data - I suggest setting it to cases, per million, linear, and add your state to the highlighted list.
https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&cumulative=0&logScale=1&perMillion=0&values=deaths
The NY Times has hotspot map is an excellent quick glace of rolling 2-week case change: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
State Details:
https://public.tableau.com/views/Coronavirus-ChangeovertimeintheUSA/2_Corona?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link
Rt data: https://rt.live/
COVID risk by US county: https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression/
Each of the above sites reports its source data. Please review sources like https://covidtracking.com/ to understand the quality of that data.
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The Medical Letter is an outstanding guide for unbiased reviews of treatment options and medications. They have updated their coronavirus treatment guidelines, which is available for free:
https://secure.medicalletter.org/downloads/1595e_table.pdf
Here are some updated projections from IHME and an NPR article on how facemask use may reduce the spread when built into these projections.
article: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/886905055/widespread-use-of-face-masks-could-save-tens-of-thousands-of-lives-models-projec
Models: https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america
The debate over whether the virus is "airborne" is now picking up. Airborne spread differs from droplet-based and surface-based spread. Nevertheless, it would speak to the need to be even more vigilant in limiting time in enclosed spaces with poor air circulation and filtering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/239-experts-with-one-big-claim-the-coronavirus-is-airborne.html
Understanding and discussing the case rate data from FL and the Southwest has been a challenge. Here is a biostatistician who helps explain that the rate of rising cases, irrespective of the testing volume, is concerning.
https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1278868210385915904
Here is a discussion about pre-release data on using convalescent plasma. In this randomized trial, there was no clear benefit and no harm. https://twitter.com/GaetanBurgio/status/1279187577455538176
Here is a reassuring, but a data-free article on the possible efficacy of the Oxford Coronavirus vaccine. Big claims and optimism, to be sure. It is an excellent example of what consumers will have to wade through once we have multiple vaccine candidates and lots of companies vying to be the vaccine of choice.
https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/26293/20200701/oxford-expert-claims-covid-19-vaccine-gives-long-term-immunity.htm
I continue to see numerous anecdotal and case reports about prolonged symptoms with COVID. It concerns me and is yet another reason to keep masked and distanced.
https://twitter.com/DaniOliver/status/1279155358666305541
Here is some valuable Twitter discussion on the latest data surrounding back-calculated infection rates, symptoms, and longer-term impact.
https://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/1279613185742397446
One of the byproducts of decluttering is the sudden and urgent need for collective nouns of things. I offer the infographic of the day #1:
https://englishstudypage.com/grammar/collective-nouns-things/
Infographic of the day #2: Fireflies!
https://i.redd.it/va41qjoa7z851.jpg
-----Bonus Round - Understanding Cultures
Understanding a variety of cultures is helpful if one is going to live in a diverse society. Over the weekend, I re-encountered Margaret Mead. It was refreshing and eye-opening to revisit how many cultural norms she questioned. This article has an outstanding 6-minute biography about her work.
http://www.openculture.com/2020/07/an-animated-introduction-to-the-pioneering-anthropologist-margaret-mead.html
I also came across the Rochester University's Frederick Douglass collection of writings. It houses a scanned and transcribed version of his "What to the Slave Is the 4th of July" speech from 1852. The speech highlight just how long we have had public discussions around injustice and race. Moreover, the backstory of how mindful Douglass was of his impact is fascinating.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frederick-douglass-fourth-july-speech
Frederick Douglass papers: https://frederickdouglass.infoset.io/islandora/object/islandora%3A4642
Clean hands and sharp minds,
AW
We spent the holiday weekend cleaning and organizing, which was a great exercise in "hard heads and soft hearts." Getting rid of twenty years' worth of boxes filled with souvenirs, notebooks, and stuff is hard. Figuring out how to best "curate" the essential things from childhood, college, and earlier in life is even harder. What I found most interesting is how documentary evidence demonstrates how faulty memory can be. Report cards from elementary and middle school tell a much different story about my "successes" than I seem to remember (except for gym. I remember the trauma of middle school gym very clearly). To be sure, and having reviewed the data, I am even happier I am no longer in middle school now than when I graduated middle school then. I guess some memories are spot-on.
-----
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
FT data - the second graph down now has state-level data - I suggest setting it to cases, per million, linear, and add your state to the highlighted list.
https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&cumulative=0&logScale=1&perMillion=0&values=deaths
The NY Times has hotspot map is an excellent quick glace of rolling 2-week case change: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
State Details:
https://public.tableau.com/views/Coronavirus-ChangeovertimeintheUSA/2_Corona?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link
Rt data: https://rt.live/
COVID risk by US county: https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression/
Each of the above sites reports its source data. Please review sources like https://covidtracking.com/ to understand the quality of that data.
------
The Medical Letter is an outstanding guide for unbiased reviews of treatment options and medications. They have updated their coronavirus treatment guidelines, which is available for free:
https://secure.medicalletter.org/downloads/1595e_table.pdf
Here are some updated projections from IHME and an NPR article on how facemask use may reduce the spread when built into these projections.
article: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/886905055/widespread-use-of-face-masks-could-save-tens-of-thousands-of-lives-models-projec
Models: https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america
The debate over whether the virus is "airborne" is now picking up. Airborne spread differs from droplet-based and surface-based spread. Nevertheless, it would speak to the need to be even more vigilant in limiting time in enclosed spaces with poor air circulation and filtering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/239-experts-with-one-big-claim-the-coronavirus-is-airborne.html
Understanding and discussing the case rate data from FL and the Southwest has been a challenge. Here is a biostatistician who helps explain that the rate of rising cases, irrespective of the testing volume, is concerning.
https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1278868210385915904
Here is a discussion about pre-release data on using convalescent plasma. In this randomized trial, there was no clear benefit and no harm. https://twitter.com/GaetanBurgio/status/1279187577455538176
Here is a reassuring, but a data-free article on the possible efficacy of the Oxford Coronavirus vaccine. Big claims and optimism, to be sure. It is an excellent example of what consumers will have to wade through once we have multiple vaccine candidates and lots of companies vying to be the vaccine of choice.
https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/26293/20200701/oxford-expert-claims-covid-19-vaccine-gives-long-term-immunity.htm
I continue to see numerous anecdotal and case reports about prolonged symptoms with COVID. It concerns me and is yet another reason to keep masked and distanced.
https://twitter.com/DaniOliver/status/1279155358666305541
Here is some valuable Twitter discussion on the latest data surrounding back-calculated infection rates, symptoms, and longer-term impact.
https://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/1279613185742397446
One of the byproducts of decluttering is the sudden and urgent need for collective nouns of things. I offer the infographic of the day #1:
https://englishstudypage.com/grammar/collective-nouns-things/
Infographic of the day #2: Fireflies!
https://i.redd.it/va41qjoa7z851.jpg
-----Bonus Round - Understanding Cultures
Understanding a variety of cultures is helpful if one is going to live in a diverse society. Over the weekend, I re-encountered Margaret Mead. It was refreshing and eye-opening to revisit how many cultural norms she questioned. This article has an outstanding 6-minute biography about her work.
http://www.openculture.com/2020/07/an-animated-introduction-to-the-pioneering-anthropologist-margaret-mead.html
I also came across the Rochester University's Frederick Douglass collection of writings. It houses a scanned and transcribed version of his "What to the Slave Is the 4th of July" speech from 1852. The speech highlight just how long we have had public discussions around injustice and race. Moreover, the backstory of how mindful Douglass was of his impact is fascinating.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frederick-douglass-fourth-july-speech
Frederick Douglass papers: https://frederickdouglass.infoset.io/islandora/object/islandora%3A4642
Clean hands and sharp minds,
AW
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