Tuesday, April 13, 2021
I have mixed feelings about our "house rule" of not having phones at the dinner table. Last night, via my phone, the interwebs facilitated knowledge about Moose Tracks ice cream's history and the origins of sprinkles (a.k.a jimmies). I think there is an urgency to intellectual ephemera that supersedes phone rules. I cannot imagine raising children in an environment that forces upon them extended moments of ignorance that Google can otherwise and immediately enlighten. And, we were eating dessert, which is technically not dinner. There should be a third-party arbiter to help families navigate such weighty matters of situational ethics. Maybe Google can help.
http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/03/13/the_jimmies_story/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_Tracks
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At least for the moment, hospitalization rates are still not rising proportionally to case rates. Deaths keep falling. I want to be optimistic that this is due to vaccination volumes.
CDC National Hospitalization trend data
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#hospitalizations
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
The U.S. Regionally - N.Y. Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
Vaccine Tracker
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-trends
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Dr. Gandhi from UCSF continues to be an anchor point of optimism on the spectrum of pandemic data interpretation. I strongly recommend reading her tweetorial on the B1117 strain and the basis for her positive outlook - which is a better explanation of my hospitalization comments above. Just keep in mind that her opinions and reality may diverge, and we all must watch the data.
https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1379663876900278274
Hilda Bastian offers some good commentary and a global perspective about vaccine hesitancy and getting any available vaccine into arms.
https://twitter.com/hildabast/status/1381809211718258690
Walgreens and Uber are offering free rides to get vaccinated.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/04/12/vaccine-access-fund-uber-paypal-walgreens/4001618243974/
Two interesting articles on non-vaccine therapies:
*Subcutaneous* use of monoclonal antibodies for post-exposure prophylaxis. (Thank you, loyal reader!)
https://endpts.com/regenerons-covid-mab-as-a-prophylactic-injection-reduced-risk-of-symptomatic-infection-by-81/
DARPA, the bringer of the internet, the robot apocalypse, and science fact from science fiction, is in on COVID diagnostics and therapeutics.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9460389/Pentagon-scientists-invent-microchip-senses-COVID-19-body-symptoms.html
Infographic of the day: sensitivity and specificity
https://twitter.com/stevenbollipo/status/1381549904707821573/photo/1
or
https://twitter.com/DrCraigGedye/status/1381551637358014466/photo/1
One more infographic on AZ vaccines:
https://twitter.com/ABsteward/status/1381293301177942020/photo/1
------Bonus Round --- The Last Queen of Sikkim
In poking around the Library of Congress photo collections yesterday, I found the Sikkim photo collection by Alice Kandell. Sikkim is an Indian State between Nepal and Bhutan and was an independent kingdom until 1975. The last Queen of Sikkim was an American Sarah Lawrence student named Hope Cooke, who ascended to the role at age 21 in 1965. Her story is a fascinating read of youthful idealism, international politics, and happenstance. She moved back to the U.S. in the late 1970s. She is now 80 but still (apparently) active. For a while, she gave walking tours of New York City. Cooke is now a writer and local historian in Brooklyn, but Wikipedia calls her children "Issue," which means they are royal. (BTW - What's the difference between children with issues and Issue with issues‽ I think Issue have more issues, right?)
Overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Cooke
N.Y. Times article about the book on her time as Queen
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/08/books/the-fairy-tale-that-turned-nightmare.html
Photos
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/kskm/
Library of Congress online photo catalog
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
Clean hands and sharp minds, team
Adam
I have mixed feelings about our "house rule" of not having phones at the dinner table. Last night, via my phone, the interwebs facilitated knowledge about Moose Tracks ice cream's history and the origins of sprinkles (a.k.a jimmies). I think there is an urgency to intellectual ephemera that supersedes phone rules. I cannot imagine raising children in an environment that forces upon them extended moments of ignorance that Google can otherwise and immediately enlighten. And, we were eating dessert, which is technically not dinner. There should be a third-party arbiter to help families navigate such weighty matters of situational ethics. Maybe Google can help.
http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/03/13/the_jimmies_story/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_Tracks
-----
At least for the moment, hospitalization rates are still not rising proportionally to case rates. Deaths keep falling. I want to be optimistic that this is due to vaccination volumes.
CDC National Hospitalization trend data
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#hospitalizations
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
The U.S. Regionally - N.Y. Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
Vaccine Tracker
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-trends
-----
Dr. Gandhi from UCSF continues to be an anchor point of optimism on the spectrum of pandemic data interpretation. I strongly recommend reading her tweetorial on the B1117 strain and the basis for her positive outlook - which is a better explanation of my hospitalization comments above. Just keep in mind that her opinions and reality may diverge, and we all must watch the data.
https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1379663876900278274
Hilda Bastian offers some good commentary and a global perspective about vaccine hesitancy and getting any available vaccine into arms.
https://twitter.com/hildabast/status/1381809211718258690
Walgreens and Uber are offering free rides to get vaccinated.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/04/12/vaccine-access-fund-uber-paypal-walgreens/4001618243974/
Two interesting articles on non-vaccine therapies:
*Subcutaneous* use of monoclonal antibodies for post-exposure prophylaxis. (Thank you, loyal reader!)
https://endpts.com/regenerons-covid-mab-as-a-prophylactic-injection-reduced-risk-of-symptomatic-infection-by-81/
DARPA, the bringer of the internet, the robot apocalypse, and science fact from science fiction, is in on COVID diagnostics and therapeutics.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9460389/Pentagon-scientists-invent-microchip-senses-COVID-19-body-symptoms.html
Infographic of the day: sensitivity and specificity
https://twitter.com/stevenbollipo/status/1381549904707821573/photo/1
or
https://twitter.com/DrCraigGedye/status/1381551637358014466/photo/1
One more infographic on AZ vaccines:
https://twitter.com/ABsteward/status/1381293301177942020/photo/1
------Bonus Round --- The Last Queen of Sikkim
In poking around the Library of Congress photo collections yesterday, I found the Sikkim photo collection by Alice Kandell. Sikkim is an Indian State between Nepal and Bhutan and was an independent kingdom until 1975. The last Queen of Sikkim was an American Sarah Lawrence student named Hope Cooke, who ascended to the role at age 21 in 1965. Her story is a fascinating read of youthful idealism, international politics, and happenstance. She moved back to the U.S. in the late 1970s. She is now 80 but still (apparently) active. For a while, she gave walking tours of New York City. Cooke is now a writer and local historian in Brooklyn, but Wikipedia calls her children "Issue," which means they are royal. (BTW - What's the difference between children with issues and Issue with issues‽ I think Issue have more issues, right?)
Overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Cooke
N.Y. Times article about the book on her time as Queen
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/08/books/the-fairy-tale-that-turned-nightmare.html
Photos
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/kskm/
Library of Congress online photo catalog
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
Clean hands and sharp minds, team
Adam
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