Monday
October 12, 2020
I am borrowing a large Chevy cargo van for moving stuff to our new house. It is incredibly helpful to have an 18-foot van for a month. I am profoundly grateful to the loyal reader who loaned it to me. However, I have discovered a particular unease when driving it - a "middle-aged guy driving a big black van" self-awareness if you will. There are moments at stoplights when I have the vague feeling that I am inducing stranger-danger in others. My kids have called the van creepy (though they cleverly named the van "Halen"). Moving has unexpectedly surfaced my 1980's-induced subconscious visceral unease surrounding vans and, by extension, questioning strangers' motives. Sometimes you don't realize your biases and assumptions until you are sitting in them. At a stoplight.
-----Latest Data---
Case rates trending up in many states and parts of the world
Death rates still stable or falling - remember it is often a 2+ week lagging indicator. The U.S. is rising back toward 50,000 new cases per day (7-day rolling average) and is stable at 675 deaths per day (7-day rolling average).
Global-View:
https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386938
Nationally:
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 U.S. 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.
----
The COVID tracking project blog is an excellent source for reviewing the previous week's trends and data. They are offering some sobering commentary about the coming weeks and move toward in-door activities.
https://covidtracking.com/blog/weekly-update-oct-8
I found several heat maps describing how COVID impacts different age groups over time. It is a retrospective review but illustrates how, with the most current spike in cases (in the U.K.), it appears now the young are getting sick and spread COVID to older age groups. Be careful in assigning causation in interpreting these visualizations, but certainly, the trend is illuminating.
https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Robertson/status/1314544108547997703
Here is Paris:
https://twitter.com/rubenivangaalen/status/1314283721999212550
On Friday, additional remdesivir data was released. This data was part of the randomized trial, published in a cursory and high-level fashion in the NEJM in May. Yes, May. It feels very much like the hype outweighs the reality as the data demonstrated very few statistically significant improvements in critically ill patients using remdesivir.
https://brief19.com/2020/10/08/final-remdesivir-results-published-after-139-days-of-waiting
On the upside, it does appear remdesivir is safe in patients with CKD or AKI
https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(20)31643-0/fulltext
Though this JAMA article is from a few weeks ago, it is worth reminding ourselves why we mask, continue to socially distance, and wash our hands. Take a look at the survey of patients with prolonged post-COVID symptoms ("long-haulers").
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2771111
Here is a visualization that was not associated with the article, but resonates:
https://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/1315046248261406720
Infographic of the day: Size matters not?
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/relative-size-of-particles-large.html
from https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-relative-size-of-particles/
----Bonus Round - More subtle 80's ephemera and assumptions
Last week, I happened upon a discussion about another omnipresent part of my childhood about which I was never fully cognizant - the bold, red font on the sides of cassette and CDs.
https://twitter.com/bobbker/status/1314195409603104768/photo/1
So, down the rabbit hole, we go:
https://twitter.com/workedntheory/status/1314207789804253190
Here is the short story:
before computers and fonts - i.e., required typesetting and printing
Needed a uniform look reproducible across multiple printing companies
Needed something visible from a distance and through the protective plastic casing used to deter shoplifting
And, while we're undermining my childhood memories, let's remind ourselves of the "Wag the dog" consumerism of 1980's cartoons:
https://www.eightieskids.com/12-classic-80s-cartoons-that-were-created-just-to-sell-toys/
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
October 12, 2020
I am borrowing a large Chevy cargo van for moving stuff to our new house. It is incredibly helpful to have an 18-foot van for a month. I am profoundly grateful to the loyal reader who loaned it to me. However, I have discovered a particular unease when driving it - a "middle-aged guy driving a big black van" self-awareness if you will. There are moments at stoplights when I have the vague feeling that I am inducing stranger-danger in others. My kids have called the van creepy (though they cleverly named the van "Halen"). Moving has unexpectedly surfaced my 1980's-induced subconscious visceral unease surrounding vans and, by extension, questioning strangers' motives. Sometimes you don't realize your biases and assumptions until you are sitting in them. At a stoplight.
-----Latest Data---
Case rates trending up in many states and parts of the world
Death rates still stable or falling - remember it is often a 2+ week lagging indicator. The U.S. is rising back toward 50,000 new cases per day (7-day rolling average) and is stable at 675 deaths per day (7-day rolling average).
Global-View:
https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386938
Nationally:
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 U.S. 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.
----
The COVID tracking project blog is an excellent source for reviewing the previous week's trends and data. They are offering some sobering commentary about the coming weeks and move toward in-door activities.
https://covidtracking.com/blog/weekly-update-oct-8
I found several heat maps describing how COVID impacts different age groups over time. It is a retrospective review but illustrates how, with the most current spike in cases (in the U.K.), it appears now the young are getting sick and spread COVID to older age groups. Be careful in assigning causation in interpreting these visualizations, but certainly, the trend is illuminating.
https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Robertson/status/1314544108547997703
Here is Paris:
https://twitter.com/rubenivangaalen/status/1314283721999212550
On Friday, additional remdesivir data was released. This data was part of the randomized trial, published in a cursory and high-level fashion in the NEJM in May. Yes, May. It feels very much like the hype outweighs the reality as the data demonstrated very few statistically significant improvements in critically ill patients using remdesivir.
https://brief19.com/2020/10/08/final-remdesivir-results-published-after-139-days-of-waiting
On the upside, it does appear remdesivir is safe in patients with CKD or AKI
https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(20)31643-0/fulltext
Though this JAMA article is from a few weeks ago, it is worth reminding ourselves why we mask, continue to socially distance, and wash our hands. Take a look at the survey of patients with prolonged post-COVID symptoms ("long-haulers").
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2771111
Here is a visualization that was not associated with the article, but resonates:
https://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/1315046248261406720
Infographic of the day: Size matters not?
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/relative-size-of-particles-large.html
from https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-relative-size-of-particles/
----Bonus Round - More subtle 80's ephemera and assumptions
Last week, I happened upon a discussion about another omnipresent part of my childhood about which I was never fully cognizant - the bold, red font on the sides of cassette and CDs.
https://twitter.com/bobbker/status/1314195409603104768/photo/1
So, down the rabbit hole, we go:
https://twitter.com/workedntheory/status/1314207789804253190
Here is the short story:
before computers and fonts - i.e., required typesetting and printing
Needed a uniform look reproducible across multiple printing companies
Needed something visible from a distance and through the protective plastic casing used to deter shoplifting
And, while we're undermining my childhood memories, let's remind ourselves of the "Wag the dog" consumerism of 1980's cartoons:
https://www.eightieskids.com/12-classic-80s-cartoons-that-were-created-just-to-sell-toys/
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
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