Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Data on average U.S. vaccination rates demonstrated a dip in administered doses yesterday. I am not sure if this means if the U.S. is beginning to hit an inflection point of more vaccine than willing recipients. Either way, discussing how to help vaccinated the rest of the world is unresolved. There was a spate of articles discussing the ethics, medical realities (coronavirus does not recognize borders), and supply limitations in March. When we hit the more vaccine than arms moment, I wonder if the debate will pick up with the same vigor.
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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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Eric Topol started one of the more nuanced discussions I have found on Twitter on relative risk reduction, absolute risk reduction, and the number needed to vaccinate. It is worth taking the time to go through the discussion and articles.
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1384640839020736512
I am starting to see articles about the ethics of vaccine hesitancy. It is a fascinating discussion about how a single person navigates balancing their self-interest versus the community they live in, likened to environmentalism concerns, but on a much tighter timeline.
Background:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/20/vaccine-hesitant-republicans/
more
https://theconversation.com/there-are-plenty-of-moral-reasons-to-be-vaccinated-but-that-doesnt-mean-its-your-ethical-duty-158687'
It looks like India has an exploding case rate. John Burn-Murdoch from the FT does a deep dive.
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1384782949879517185
Of note, India is vaccinating at a high speed, but it appears the virus is moving faster, for now.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-becomes-fastest-country-to-administer-13-crore-covid-vaccine-doses-health-ministry/articleshow/82175033.cms
(And I learned the word Crore today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore)
Here is the kind of discussion about vaccine disparity I referred to in the opening:
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2C80I7
And here is the least bad part of what happens when we don't think about COVID as a global problem with a global strategy:
https://thepointsguy.com/news/do-not-travel-advisory/
Infographics of the day: New Discoveries
Older website, appropriate snark, made me laugh
https://www.leagueoflostcauses.com/?offset=1484930857053
and
https://www.leagueoflostcauses.com/blog/2013/08/astronomy-101.html
---Bonus Round --- T. Rex
I can only hope that the sentient robots that inherit the earth in a few million years spend as much time focusing on us homo sapiens as we spend on Tyrannosaurus Rex. There were several new articles I encountered in the last few days.
First, I found an article on new "census" data about T. Rex. With a total population of 2.5 billion (over ~ 2-3 million years), they would have had quite a congressional representation, assuming we didn't gerrymander their districts. (Not really, they were very dispersed, but that wouldn't have made for as entertaining a comment.)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-estimate-25-billion-total-tyrannosaurus-rex-roamed-earth-180977529/
It also turns out that new simulations indicate Jurassic Park misrepresented the speed and motion of T. Rex. We may have been able to out-walk a Rex. However, I have difficulty understanding how a slow-moving animal could catch prey unless T. Rex mainly scavenged. (Maybe other dinosaurs moved slower‽) I'm sure there is data on this somewhere.
https://www.livescience.com/t-rex-slow-walker-tail.html
If you want to learn more, there is an impressively vast amount of background on Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
Data on average U.S. vaccination rates demonstrated a dip in administered doses yesterday. I am not sure if this means if the U.S. is beginning to hit an inflection point of more vaccine than willing recipients. Either way, discussing how to help vaccinated the rest of the world is unresolved. There was a spate of articles discussing the ethics, medical realities (coronavirus does not recognize borders), and supply limitations in March. When we hit the more vaccine than arms moment, I wonder if the debate will pick up with the same vigor.
-----
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
-----
Eric Topol started one of the more nuanced discussions I have found on Twitter on relative risk reduction, absolute risk reduction, and the number needed to vaccinate. It is worth taking the time to go through the discussion and articles.
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1384640839020736512
I am starting to see articles about the ethics of vaccine hesitancy. It is a fascinating discussion about how a single person navigates balancing their self-interest versus the community they live in, likened to environmentalism concerns, but on a much tighter timeline.
Background:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/20/vaccine-hesitant-republicans/
more
https://theconversation.com/there-are-plenty-of-moral-reasons-to-be-vaccinated-but-that-doesnt-mean-its-your-ethical-duty-158687'
It looks like India has an exploding case rate. John Burn-Murdoch from the FT does a deep dive.
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1384782949879517185
Of note, India is vaccinating at a high speed, but it appears the virus is moving faster, for now.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-becomes-fastest-country-to-administer-13-crore-covid-vaccine-doses-health-ministry/articleshow/82175033.cms
(And I learned the word Crore today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore)
Here is the kind of discussion about vaccine disparity I referred to in the opening:
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2C80I7
And here is the least bad part of what happens when we don't think about COVID as a global problem with a global strategy:
https://thepointsguy.com/news/do-not-travel-advisory/
Infographics of the day: New Discoveries
Older website, appropriate snark, made me laugh
https://www.leagueoflostcauses.com/?offset=1484930857053
and
https://www.leagueoflostcauses.com/blog/2013/08/astronomy-101.html
---Bonus Round --- T. Rex
I can only hope that the sentient robots that inherit the earth in a few million years spend as much time focusing on us homo sapiens as we spend on Tyrannosaurus Rex. There were several new articles I encountered in the last few days.
First, I found an article on new "census" data about T. Rex. With a total population of 2.5 billion (over ~ 2-3 million years), they would have had quite a congressional representation, assuming we didn't gerrymander their districts. (Not really, they were very dispersed, but that wouldn't have made for as entertaining a comment.)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-estimate-25-billion-total-tyrannosaurus-rex-roamed-earth-180977529/
It also turns out that new simulations indicate Jurassic Park misrepresented the speed and motion of T. Rex. We may have been able to out-walk a Rex. However, I have difficulty understanding how a slow-moving animal could catch prey unless T. Rex mainly scavenged. (Maybe other dinosaurs moved slower‽) I'm sure there is data on this somewhere.
https://www.livescience.com/t-rex-slow-walker-tail.html
If you want to learn more, there is an impressively vast amount of background on Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
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