Monday, April 19, 2021
My kids are back in school, in person, and all week. Until 12 to 15-year-olds are vaccinated, however, weekends are still low-key. Yesterday, my older son told me he no longer likes weekends since he cannot go to school. Should we have been making weekends less fun all along?
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There is state-level variation, but national case and death rates are steady. Vaccination rates are rising. More than 50% of adults in the U.S. have now received at least one vaccine dose.
https://apnews.com/article/politics-anthony-fauci-coronavirus-pandemic-infectious-diseases-coronavirus-vaccine-6e3b18b44a05d1e49ed35337ec7ce969
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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Many, many articles over the last few days:
The CDC week in review offers an interpretation of a complex and changing situation. Topics of note include increasing hospitalizations for 18-64-year-olds and the changing mix of viral variants.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html
I suspect the pandemic will be over before we have the long-promised COVID-sniffing dogs deployed. But as a kidney doctor, the "Trained dogs can smell coronavirus in your pee" was Pavlovian click-bait for me.
https://www.livescience.com/dogs-sniff-out-coronavirus.html
A few related items:
The NY Times offered this fantastic infographic on air circulation in planes and the relative safety of air travel.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/17/travel/flying-plane-covid-19-safety.html?smid=tw-share
and
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, who falls on the more conservative side of interpreting coronavirus news, analyzed data on COVID spread between rooms connected by air ducts in a hotel.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1383254527449583627
The absolute safest course of action is to buy three rows of plane seats, sit window of your middle row, and stay in an Airbnb
Dr. Gandhi offers a comforting discussion about breakthrough rates - those who become symptomatically infected after vaccination.
https://twitter.com/monicagandhi9/status/1383938992240926731?s=10
more
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/what-are-breakthrough-infections-and-who-is-more-likely-to-report-them-cdc-nyc-take-deeper-dive/3000745/
Related: here are some interesting tweets on the politics of infectious disease opinions. The pro-Monica Gandhi camp now has t-shirts.
https://twitter.com/drlucymcbride/status/1383837087779016712
Infographic of the day: My vegetable ignorance is showing
Brussel sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi are all versions (cultivars) of the same genus and species - Brassica Oleracea‽ How have I made it to age 46 without knowing this?
https://www.businessinsider.com/brassica-oleracea-broccoli-kale-brussels-sprouts-2017-5
and
https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/8/6/5974989/kale-cauliflower-cabbage-broccoli-same-plan
-----Bonus Round - You had me at Flying Monkeydactyl
Beyond this dinosaur being a great example of convergent evolution and niche specialization, the story of finding these fossils is pretty neat. I did not know paleontologists used CT scans of rock to obtain 3D renderings of fossils.
https://www.livescience.com/pterosaur-monkeydactyl-oldest-animal-thumbs.html
Here is a related article. Spanish scientists report on fossilized footprints identified by drone and 3D scanning to determine the variation in age, gender, and activity of a group of Neanderthals walking on muddy banks of coastal wetlands around the Iberian peninsula about 100,000 years ago. Check out the second link for the actual journal article with pictures.
https://www.livescience.com/neanderthal-footprints-children-playing-on-beach.html
from
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83413-8
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
My kids are back in school, in person, and all week. Until 12 to 15-year-olds are vaccinated, however, weekends are still low-key. Yesterday, my older son told me he no longer likes weekends since he cannot go to school. Should we have been making weekends less fun all along?
-----
There is state-level variation, but national case and death rates are steady. Vaccination rates are rising. More than 50% of adults in the U.S. have now received at least one vaccine dose.
https://apnews.com/article/politics-anthony-fauci-coronavirus-pandemic-infectious-diseases-coronavirus-vaccine-6e3b18b44a05d1e49ed35337ec7ce969
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
-----
Many, many articles over the last few days:
The CDC week in review offers an interpretation of a complex and changing situation. Topics of note include increasing hospitalizations for 18-64-year-olds and the changing mix of viral variants.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html
I suspect the pandemic will be over before we have the long-promised COVID-sniffing dogs deployed. But as a kidney doctor, the "Trained dogs can smell coronavirus in your pee" was Pavlovian click-bait for me.
https://www.livescience.com/dogs-sniff-out-coronavirus.html
A few related items:
The NY Times offered this fantastic infographic on air circulation in planes and the relative safety of air travel.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/17/travel/flying-plane-covid-19-safety.html?smid=tw-share
and
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, who falls on the more conservative side of interpreting coronavirus news, analyzed data on COVID spread between rooms connected by air ducts in a hotel.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1383254527449583627
The absolute safest course of action is to buy three rows of plane seats, sit window of your middle row, and stay in an Airbnb
Dr. Gandhi offers a comforting discussion about breakthrough rates - those who become symptomatically infected after vaccination.
https://twitter.com/monicagandhi9/status/1383938992240926731?s=10
more
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/what-are-breakthrough-infections-and-who-is-more-likely-to-report-them-cdc-nyc-take-deeper-dive/3000745/
Related: here are some interesting tweets on the politics of infectious disease opinions. The pro-Monica Gandhi camp now has t-shirts.
https://twitter.com/drlucymcbride/status/1383837087779016712
Infographic of the day: My vegetable ignorance is showing
Brussel sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi are all versions (cultivars) of the same genus and species - Brassica Oleracea‽ How have I made it to age 46 without knowing this?
https://www.businessinsider.com/brassica-oleracea-broccoli-kale-brussels-sprouts-2017-5
and
https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/8/6/5974989/kale-cauliflower-cabbage-broccoli-same-plan
-----Bonus Round - You had me at Flying Monkeydactyl
Beyond this dinosaur being a great example of convergent evolution and niche specialization, the story of finding these fossils is pretty neat. I did not know paleontologists used CT scans of rock to obtain 3D renderings of fossils.
https://www.livescience.com/pterosaur-monkeydactyl-oldest-animal-thumbs.html
Here is a related article. Spanish scientists report on fossilized footprints identified by drone and 3D scanning to determine the variation in age, gender, and activity of a group of Neanderthals walking on muddy banks of coastal wetlands around the Iberian peninsula about 100,000 years ago. Check out the second link for the actual journal article with pictures.
https://www.livescience.com/neanderthal-footprints-children-playing-on-beach.html
from
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83413-8
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
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