Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Last night my wife and I watched a movie on Netflix. For a blissful 112 minutes, I did not touch my phone. No Twitter. No news. No alerts. On a spectrum of apathy to activism, I've bounced between "FOMO ADHD" and "bearing witness" for the last year. The movie was good, but being able to ignore the world was better. I sincerely hope this is a trend.
-----Latest Data---
Of note, the 7-day rolling death average, a lagging indicator, is consistently decreasing in both the U.S. and the U.K.
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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Brief19.com, a physician-written roundup of research, covers several interesting topics yesterday, including data demonstrating fetal protection from COVID by maternal antibodies.
https://brief19.com/2021/02/01/brief#mothers-provide-protection-for-their-infants-if-infected-with-covid-19-in-most-cases-0
A loyal reader passed on links to Eran Segal's comments on data from Israel, demonstrating some early evidence of what wide-scale, high-volume vaccination can accomplish. There have been decreases in cases, hospitalizations, and critical illness more significant than seen during previous lockdowns.
https://twitter.com/segal_eran/status/1356313705684869121
more
https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2021/01/12/how-israel-launched-world-leading-covid-19-vaccination-campaign-lessons-the
More data on the COVID spread related to the U.S. Capitol Insurrection on January 6 - it was a superspreader event (on top of everything else it was).
https://brief19.com/2021/01/31/brief#the-us-capitol-insurrection-was-a-superspreader-event-0
A second loyal wrote yesterday asking about a N.Y. Times article discussing how to measure the COVID vaccine's effectiveness. Vaccine effectiveness is not a single outcome. Rather, scientists describe vaccine effectiveness as one or more variables, including the attack rate (proportion of infected in a given population), hospitalizations, critical illness, death, or costs. As the articles below point out, the COVID vaccine has successfully decreased hospitalizations and death. We are less sure about the protection from infection, which is why we should all be wearing masks until there is a much larger number of people vaccinated - you don't want to get your unvaccinated loved ones sick.
Articles Referenced:
From Loyal Reader https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/briefing/vaccination-myanmar-coup-rochester-police.html
From the Lancet:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30773-8/fulltext
Handy infographic: https://marlin-prod.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/81e93803-7f8c-4613-8b9e-55fe06940384/gr1.jpg
Related on other vaccine effectiveness:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/science/mass-vaccine-drives.html
Infographic of the day: How Animals Survive Freezing
https://twitter.com/cenmag/status/1356272397339521026/photo/1
-----Bonus Round: People are (and were) people, and I miss traveling.
I found this Atlas Obscura article discussing some data on medieval and renaissance travel in Western Europe. The article's title is about the adult-themed kitsch used as talismans to ward off the plague, but what I found more remarkable is how much of it there was. The world of 1300-1400 Europe had a blossoming travel industry, with everything the pilgrim could want, including gift shops, souvenirs, and the medieval equivalent of drive-through dining.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-plague-badges
and
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35108393
and
http://www.historicalcookingproject.com/2014/12/pilgrims-menus-on-camino-de-santiago.html
and
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75957/10-travel-tips-medieval-explorers
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
Last night my wife and I watched a movie on Netflix. For a blissful 112 minutes, I did not touch my phone. No Twitter. No news. No alerts. On a spectrum of apathy to activism, I've bounced between "FOMO ADHD" and "bearing witness" for the last year. The movie was good, but being able to ignore the world was better. I sincerely hope this is a trend.
-----Latest Data---
Of note, the 7-day rolling death average, a lagging indicator, is consistently decreasing in both the U.S. and the U.K.
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/
-----
Brief19.com, a physician-written roundup of research, covers several interesting topics yesterday, including data demonstrating fetal protection from COVID by maternal antibodies.
https://brief19.com/2021/02/01/brief#mothers-provide-protection-for-their-infants-if-infected-with-covid-19-in-most-cases-0
A loyal reader passed on links to Eran Segal's comments on data from Israel, demonstrating some early evidence of what wide-scale, high-volume vaccination can accomplish. There have been decreases in cases, hospitalizations, and critical illness more significant than seen during previous lockdowns.
https://twitter.com/segal_eran/status/1356313705684869121
more
https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2021/01/12/how-israel-launched-world-leading-covid-19-vaccination-campaign-lessons-the
More data on the COVID spread related to the U.S. Capitol Insurrection on January 6 - it was a superspreader event (on top of everything else it was).
https://brief19.com/2021/01/31/brief#the-us-capitol-insurrection-was-a-superspreader-event-0
A second loyal wrote yesterday asking about a N.Y. Times article discussing how to measure the COVID vaccine's effectiveness. Vaccine effectiveness is not a single outcome. Rather, scientists describe vaccine effectiveness as one or more variables, including the attack rate (proportion of infected in a given population), hospitalizations, critical illness, death, or costs. As the articles below point out, the COVID vaccine has successfully decreased hospitalizations and death. We are less sure about the protection from infection, which is why we should all be wearing masks until there is a much larger number of people vaccinated - you don't want to get your unvaccinated loved ones sick.
Articles Referenced:
From Loyal Reader https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/briefing/vaccination-myanmar-coup-rochester-police.html
From the Lancet:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30773-8/fulltext
Handy infographic: https://marlin-prod.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/81e93803-7f8c-4613-8b9e-55fe06940384/gr1.jpg
Related on other vaccine effectiveness:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/science/mass-vaccine-drives.html
Infographic of the day: How Animals Survive Freezing
https://twitter.com/cenmag/status/1356272397339521026/photo/1
-----Bonus Round: People are (and were) people, and I miss traveling.
I found this Atlas Obscura article discussing some data on medieval and renaissance travel in Western Europe. The article's title is about the adult-themed kitsch used as talismans to ward off the plague, but what I found more remarkable is how much of it there was. The world of 1300-1400 Europe had a blossoming travel industry, with everything the pilgrim could want, including gift shops, souvenirs, and the medieval equivalent of drive-through dining.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-plague-badges
and
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35108393
and
http://www.historicalcookingproject.com/2014/12/pilgrims-menus-on-camino-de-santiago.html
and
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75957/10-travel-tips-medieval-explorers
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
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