August 19, 2020
Wednesday
I was seeing a few patients in the office yesterday. Wearing masks, weaving in COVID advice, and reminding the patients about isolation strategies are now part of routine CKD discussion. It bothers me that I am expending valuable clinical time on navigating the pandemic. But pandemic exhaustion is a thing. Vigilance is exhausting, and complacency yields unintended risks for my vulnerable patients. There are so many subtle consequences of a poorly controlled pandemic.
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Latest Data
Global-View:
https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386938
Nationally:
a slow decline in new cases in the US (still around 50,000 a day)
stable deaths @ 3.2 per million (or about 1000 deaths per day) in the US for the last week
https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&areasRegional=usny&areasRegional=usca&areasRegional=usfl&areasRegional=ustx&areasRegional=usco&cumulative=0&logScale=0&perMillion=1&values=cases
Also, look at https://covidtracking.com/data
The US Regionally:
The NY Times state-level data visualization:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
About the data:
https://covidtracking.com/about-data/visualization-guide is the best resource to understand data visualization and data integrity.
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Case reports of the immunity of previously infected and recovered COVID patients are starting to emerge. While this data is comforting, we need much more exploration of this topic.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/seattle-fishing-boat-outbreak-suggests-antibodies-protect-against-coronavirus-infection/
or the pre-print, not yet peer-reviewed article
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.13.20173161v1
I notice a lot of schools quickly closing due to near-immediate coronavirus outbreaks. https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-are-reopening-then-quickly-closing-due-to-coronavirus-outbreaks-11597700886
because of choices like this:
https://kfor.com/news/moore-student-who-knowingly-had-covid-19-attends-school/
or
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/university-of-north-georgia-college-students-party-coronavirus-pandemic/
Wired celebrates the hygienic properties conferred by QR codes during COVID. Some days, I believe I have slipped into an alternate reality timeline. https://www.wired.com/story/in-a-touch-free-world-the-qr-code-is-having-its-moment/
I see others have expressed concern about Oleandrin; the latest obscure compound touted as a COVID therapy (mentioned yesterday). It appears some of the more vocal advocates for this therapy may have conflicts and lack data.
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1295837646330245128
Infographic of the day: Coffee.
Here is a delightful and busy infographic on how coffee ends up in our cups.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Coffee-supply-visualized-full.html
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Bonus Round - The beauty and beasts of brevity
I found a modern version of Haikus this morning - the Wired Six-word Sci-fi Story project.
https://www.wired.com/tag/wired-backpage/
and
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WiredBackpage&src=typed_query
This Atlantic editorial offers this analysis of the virtualized Democratic National Convention - which the author believes is now fully realizing the teleologic endpoint of all political conventions: theater. To be fair, I am biased towards anyone that evokes Daniel Boorstein and his thesis on the pseudo-image. The article highlights how far political conventions have moved from function to form, including shortening speeches to accommodate attention spans and advertising. It is a great reminder to be critically thoughtful of all things we mentally ingest, irrespective of our philosophic orientation. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/the-pseudo-event-about-a-pseudo-event/615346/
Daniel Boorstein book: https://thisissuperserious.com/2012/02/17/daniel-boorstin-the-image/
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
I was seeing a few patients in the office yesterday. Wearing masks, weaving in COVID advice, and reminding the patients about isolation strategies are now part of routine CKD discussion. It bothers me that I am expending valuable clinical time on navigating the pandemic. But pandemic exhaustion is a thing. Vigilance is exhausting, and complacency yields unintended risks for my vulnerable patients. There are so many subtle consequences of a poorly controlled pandemic.
------------
Latest Data
Global-View:
https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386938
Nationally:
a slow decline in new cases in the US (still around 50,000 a day)
stable deaths @ 3.2 per million (or about 1000 deaths per day) in the US for the last week
https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&areasRegional=usny&areasRegional=usca&areasRegional=usfl&areasRegional=ustx&areasRegional=usco&cumulative=0&logScale=0&perMillion=1&values=cases
Also, look at https://covidtracking.com/data
The US Regionally:
The NY Times state-level data visualization:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
About the data:
https://covidtracking.com/about-data/visualization-guide is the best resource to understand data visualization and data integrity.
-----------
Case reports of the immunity of previously infected and recovered COVID patients are starting to emerge. While this data is comforting, we need much more exploration of this topic.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/seattle-fishing-boat-outbreak-suggests-antibodies-protect-against-coronavirus-infection/
or the pre-print, not yet peer-reviewed article
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.13.20173161v1
I notice a lot of schools quickly closing due to near-immediate coronavirus outbreaks. https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-are-reopening-then-quickly-closing-due-to-coronavirus-outbreaks-11597700886
because of choices like this:
https://kfor.com/news/moore-student-who-knowingly-had-covid-19-attends-school/
or
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/university-of-north-georgia-college-students-party-coronavirus-pandemic/
Wired celebrates the hygienic properties conferred by QR codes during COVID. Some days, I believe I have slipped into an alternate reality timeline. https://www.wired.com/story/in-a-touch-free-world-the-qr-code-is-having-its-moment/
I see others have expressed concern about Oleandrin; the latest obscure compound touted as a COVID therapy (mentioned yesterday). It appears some of the more vocal advocates for this therapy may have conflicts and lack data.
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1295837646330245128
Infographic of the day: Coffee.
Here is a delightful and busy infographic on how coffee ends up in our cups.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Coffee-supply-visualized-full.html
----------------
Bonus Round - The beauty and beasts of brevity
I found a modern version of Haikus this morning - the Wired Six-word Sci-fi Story project.
https://www.wired.com/tag/wired-backpage/
and
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WiredBackpage&src=typed_query
This Atlantic editorial offers this analysis of the virtualized Democratic National Convention - which the author believes is now fully realizing the teleologic endpoint of all political conventions: theater. To be fair, I am biased towards anyone that evokes Daniel Boorstein and his thesis on the pseudo-image. The article highlights how far political conventions have moved from function to form, including shortening speeches to accommodate attention spans and advertising. It is a great reminder to be critically thoughtful of all things we mentally ingest, irrespective of our philosophic orientation. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/the-pseudo-event-about-a-pseudo-event/615346/
Daniel Boorstein book: https://thisissuperserious.com/2012/02/17/daniel-boorstin-the-image/
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
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