Wednesday, December 30, 2020
I am getting my first dose of the Moderna vaccine later this morning. An email last night from my hospital system invited me. I am excited and want to feel that this is the beginning of an end. But I am trying to maintain some perspective. The rate required to administer a 2-part vaccine to 80% of the U.S. population within 12 months is about 10 million injections per week. That means about 1.5 million initial or follow-up vaccine administrations every day. Nationally, we are at about 2.3 million initial doses since 12/14.
-----Latest 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=casesf
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.
Vaccine Tracker!
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
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I am still seeing and hearing skepticism about the severity of COVID. Here is some more front line perspective:
An E.R. physician from N.Y. details one of her patient stories:
https://twitter.com/darakass/status/1343754550562459648
A physician's perspective on having prolonged symptoms:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2773056
Or for some broader perspective:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-of-long-haul-covid/
A loyal reader shared that OurWorldinData.org now has a vaccine tracker as well. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
Here is more on the vaccination delivery rate as of yesterday.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-29/u-s-vaccinations-at-200-000-a-day-run-far-short-of-warp-speed
Infographic of the day: Single dinosaurs near you want to meet!
I found an odd but interesting graphic on where dinosaurs roamed by continent (published by a Dubai tourism organization, oddly enough).
https://i.redd.it/sk7b1a90sy661.jpg
But, with a little more searching, I found the AMAZING interactive Paleobiology Database Navigator.
https://paleobiodb.org/navigator/
You must see this. It is incredible.
----Bonus Round - Looking forward from 1900
I found this article on a collection of early 1900's artist projections on the world in the year 2000.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-19th-century-vision-of-the-year-2000
I was hoping Santa would bring my underwater croquet set this year, but it is back-ordered.
https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/a-19th-century-vision-of-the-year-2000/800px-France_in_XXI_Century._Water_croquet.jpg?fit=max&w=2400
I guess French artists though fluid dynamics would be evolving. I am not sure what they thought would change about water, croquet, or the year 2000 that would make this a viable underwater activity.
This demonstrates just how anchored we are to our own time and place in the world. The "visionary" view of 2000 from 1900 was very industrial and focused on harnessing animal power. Though I suppose envisioning a future world of knowledge workers sitting at home in front of large flat-screen monitors is far less entertaining. Imagine how wrong we are about 2100 or 2500.
Isaac Asimov published them in a book last printed in 1986.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805001204/ref=nosim?tag=thepubdomrev-20
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
I am getting my first dose of the Moderna vaccine later this morning. An email last night from my hospital system invited me. I am excited and want to feel that this is the beginning of an end. But I am trying to maintain some perspective. The rate required to administer a 2-part vaccine to 80% of the U.S. population within 12 months is about 10 million injections per week. That means about 1.5 million initial or follow-up vaccine administrations every day. Nationally, we are at about 2.3 million initial doses since 12/14.
-----Latest 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=casesf
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.
Vaccine Tracker!
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
-----
I am still seeing and hearing skepticism about the severity of COVID. Here is some more front line perspective:
An E.R. physician from N.Y. details one of her patient stories:
https://twitter.com/darakass/status/1343754550562459648
A physician's perspective on having prolonged symptoms:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2773056
Or for some broader perspective:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-of-long-haul-covid/
A loyal reader shared that OurWorldinData.org now has a vaccine tracker as well. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
Here is more on the vaccination delivery rate as of yesterday.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-29/u-s-vaccinations-at-200-000-a-day-run-far-short-of-warp-speed
Infographic of the day: Single dinosaurs near you want to meet!
I found an odd but interesting graphic on where dinosaurs roamed by continent (published by a Dubai tourism organization, oddly enough).
https://i.redd.it/sk7b1a90sy661.jpg
But, with a little more searching, I found the AMAZING interactive Paleobiology Database Navigator.
https://paleobiodb.org/navigator/
You must see this. It is incredible.
----Bonus Round - Looking forward from 1900
I found this article on a collection of early 1900's artist projections on the world in the year 2000.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-19th-century-vision-of-the-year-2000
I was hoping Santa would bring my underwater croquet set this year, but it is back-ordered.
https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/a-19th-century-vision-of-the-year-2000/800px-France_in_XXI_Century._Water_croquet.jpg?fit=max&w=2400
I guess French artists though fluid dynamics would be evolving. I am not sure what they thought would change about water, croquet, or the year 2000 that would make this a viable underwater activity.
This demonstrates just how anchored we are to our own time and place in the world. The "visionary" view of 2000 from 1900 was very industrial and focused on harnessing animal power. Though I suppose envisioning a future world of knowledge workers sitting at home in front of large flat-screen monitors is far less entertaining. Imagine how wrong we are about 2100 or 2500.
Isaac Asimov published them in a book last printed in 1986.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805001204/ref=nosim?tag=thepubdomrev-20
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
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