Thursday, November 12, 2020
Sprinkled amongst the snark and wit on Twitter, thoughtful commentators capture the pandemic in meaningful ways. One is NYC ER doc, Cleavon Gilman - @Cleavon_MD. Though he is dialing back his social media, reviewing his tweets is well worth the time. He has highlighted thousands of individual stories of COVID patients and offered a clear and pragmatic front-line view of the pandemic. As I have watched the number of new cases and deaths rise this week, his journal and comments are a way to add the perspective of the particular while trying to comprehend the enormity of numbers in the hundreds of thousands.
https://cleavonmd.com/journal/
https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD
-----Latest Data---
144,000 new cases yesterday.
1400 deaths yesterday.
https://covidtracking.com/data
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 - N.Y. Times:
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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Dr. Fauci is back in the media this week, adding his rational commentary to the latest news about vaccines and accelerating viral spread.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-fauci-idUSKBN27Q2SU
https://www.messenger-inquirer.com/lifestyles/health/fauci-says-vaccine-could-be-available-to-all-by-april/video_db51120b-cec2-5d3c-8d07-3416907614b4.html
In just a few months of experience, we have managed to drop the death rate of COVID with better management techniques. To be sure, the 7.6% death rate is absurdly high but better than the 25% rates seen in March 2020. https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-death-rates-falling-treatments.html
More on the "why" of these changes:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03132-4
PLEASE DO NOT INTERPRET THIS DATA AS IT IS SAFE TO GET SICK. It is just less deadly, from a statistical standpoint.
Similar to Dr. Ben Carson getting COVID, here is more data that is hard to comprehend. Why would anyone choose to take a cruise now?
https://people.com/travel/passenger-aboard-first-cruise-ship-to-return-to-sailing-in-caribbean-tests-positive-for-covid-19/
The CDC is offering increasing evidence that masks protect both the wearer and others in the vicinity of the wearer. The CDC cited Goldman Sachs's research demonstrating that less spread = better economy.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/525407-cdc-report-says-masks-now-protect-wearer-as-well-as-the-public
From JUNE - https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/pages/face-masks-and-gdp.html
I'm pretty sure the above information pairs nicely with this study, "Psychological entitlement predicts noncompliance with the health guidelines of the COVID-19 pandemic."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886920306826
Infographic of the day: Heroin and Spider Webs
I never get tired of Compound Interest.
https://twitter.com/compoundchem/status/1326643109430759429/photo/1
https://twitter.com/cenmag/status/1322550192558772225/photo/1
---Bonus Round - Age and Culture Gaps
In an ongoing effort to help my children understand the world I grew up in, I happened upon the Internet Archive of VHS tapes. The Open Culture article sums it up well, but spending time poking through the digitized videos from the 1980s and 1990s is a delightful distraction. It was a period of low-cost production and low-tech visuals. VHS content had the veneer of legitimacy (why would someone spend money producing this?) without actually being verifiable (AOL and CompuServe was the internet). Thus, each video was an unverifiable adventure from a single point of view.
There is a very entertaining 1994 Law Enforcement Guide to Satanic Cults (referenced in the Open Culture article). Also, I suggest screening the astounding number of workout videos, slasher films, Australian T.V. commercials, direct-to-VHS movies, and Wiggles videos (with the O.G. cast, before Anthony left due to medical concerns.)
https://archive.org/details/vhsvault
http://www.openculture.com/2020/03/the-vhs-vault.html
Workout Videos https://archive.org/details/vhsvault?and%5B%5D=workout&sin=&sort=-downloads&page=2
Wiggles https://archive.org/details/vhsvault?and%5B%5D=wiggles&sin=&sort=-downloads
And for our tech support team - I strongly advise viewing the 1995 Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide with the cast of Friends.
https://archive.org/details/Microsoft_Windows_95_Video_Guide_1995_Uncut_VHS_x264_Aw.mkv
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
Back on Monday, I see patients tomorrow.
Sprinkled amongst the snark and wit on Twitter, thoughtful commentators capture the pandemic in meaningful ways. One is NYC ER doc, Cleavon Gilman - @Cleavon_MD. Though he is dialing back his social media, reviewing his tweets is well worth the time. He has highlighted thousands of individual stories of COVID patients and offered a clear and pragmatic front-line view of the pandemic. As I have watched the number of new cases and deaths rise this week, his journal and comments are a way to add the perspective of the particular while trying to comprehend the enormity of numbers in the hundreds of thousands.
https://cleavonmd.com/journal/
https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD
-----Latest Data---
144,000 new cases yesterday.
1400 deaths yesterday.
https://covidtracking.com/data
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 - N.Y. Times:
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.
-----
Dr. Fauci is back in the media this week, adding his rational commentary to the latest news about vaccines and accelerating viral spread.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-fauci-idUSKBN27Q2SU
https://www.messenger-inquirer.com/lifestyles/health/fauci-says-vaccine-could-be-available-to-all-by-april/video_db51120b-cec2-5d3c-8d07-3416907614b4.html
In just a few months of experience, we have managed to drop the death rate of COVID with better management techniques. To be sure, the 7.6% death rate is absurdly high but better than the 25% rates seen in March 2020. https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-death-rates-falling-treatments.html
More on the "why" of these changes:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03132-4
PLEASE DO NOT INTERPRET THIS DATA AS IT IS SAFE TO GET SICK. It is just less deadly, from a statistical standpoint.
Similar to Dr. Ben Carson getting COVID, here is more data that is hard to comprehend. Why would anyone choose to take a cruise now?
https://people.com/travel/passenger-aboard-first-cruise-ship-to-return-to-sailing-in-caribbean-tests-positive-for-covid-19/
The CDC is offering increasing evidence that masks protect both the wearer and others in the vicinity of the wearer. The CDC cited Goldman Sachs's research demonstrating that less spread = better economy.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/525407-cdc-report-says-masks-now-protect-wearer-as-well-as-the-public
From JUNE - https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/pages/face-masks-and-gdp.html
I'm pretty sure the above information pairs nicely with this study, "Psychological entitlement predicts noncompliance with the health guidelines of the COVID-19 pandemic."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886920306826
Infographic of the day: Heroin and Spider Webs
I never get tired of Compound Interest.
https://twitter.com/compoundchem/status/1326643109430759429/photo/1
https://twitter.com/cenmag/status/1322550192558772225/photo/1
---Bonus Round - Age and Culture Gaps
In an ongoing effort to help my children understand the world I grew up in, I happened upon the Internet Archive of VHS tapes. The Open Culture article sums it up well, but spending time poking through the digitized videos from the 1980s and 1990s is a delightful distraction. It was a period of low-cost production and low-tech visuals. VHS content had the veneer of legitimacy (why would someone spend money producing this?) without actually being verifiable (AOL and CompuServe was the internet). Thus, each video was an unverifiable adventure from a single point of view.
There is a very entertaining 1994 Law Enforcement Guide to Satanic Cults (referenced in the Open Culture article). Also, I suggest screening the astounding number of workout videos, slasher films, Australian T.V. commercials, direct-to-VHS movies, and Wiggles videos (with the O.G. cast, before Anthony left due to medical concerns.)
https://archive.org/details/vhsvault
http://www.openculture.com/2020/03/the-vhs-vault.html
Workout Videos https://archive.org/details/vhsvault?and%5B%5D=workout&sin=&sort=-downloads&page=2
Wiggles https://archive.org/details/vhsvault?and%5B%5D=wiggles&sin=&sort=-downloads
And for our tech support team - I strongly advise viewing the 1995 Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide with the cast of Friends.
https://archive.org/details/Microsoft_Windows_95_Video_Guide_1995_Uncut_VHS_x264_Aw.mkv
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
Back on Monday, I see patients tomorrow.
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