Thursday, May 13, 2021
Advice to my children includes - don't make your wedding anniversary seven days after your wife's birthday and in the same week as Mother's Day. Too many stacked occasions cause logistical problems and sentimental compression.
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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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Ohio, whose Governor announced a lottery for adults and teens who vaccinate, is also having local news coverage of like this: " [In] Southwest Ohio there are 142 hospitalized with COVID-19, 36 are in the ICU, 28 are on ventilators. Zero have been vaccinated."
https://www.wlwt.com/article/covid-19-patients-total-170-at-local-hospitals-not-a-single-one-vaccinated/36356774#
and
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/12/ohio-vaccinated-adults-lottery-drawing-487726
And reactions on social media are mixed:
https://twitter.com/GovMikeDeWine/status/1392597516265435139
The CDC has published cuts of vaccination rates by age, gender, and race.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/index.html#vaccination-demographics-trends
Epidemiologists are starting to hug again (at a rate of 39% of 723 polled). The NY Times "What epidemiologists are doing" series continued yesterday with updated data. While physicians are probably more risk-averse than typical adults, I would generally encourage the "don't do anything they wouldn't do" mentality. Of course, my [un?]conscious bias is with the physicians, and one should think about the surveyed population. To that end, Nate Silver from fivethirtyeight.com started some insightful and entertaining commentary on this topic. The Twitter thread has several good reminders of the types of questions we should all be asking in critically evaluating surveys.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/upshot/covid-epidemiologists.html
and
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1392446275375833089
John Burn-Murdoch (the FT data visualization guy) wrote a fantastic tweetorial about the B.1.617.2 variant (currently spreading in India). This variant is highly contagious, but vaccinated adults who become infected are experiencing mild illness (not hospitalized or dying).
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1390666071724765185
and
https://twitter.com/DevanSinha/status/1390388896433942544
My kids are (again) scheduled to get the Pfizer vaccine on Saturday. With now FDA, CDC, and State of Maryland approvals, I hope the vaccination programs are ready for my 12 to 15-year-olds.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-hogan-lifts-restrictions-20210512-zujv76imw5gf7kfiuxrlzy2ezi-story.html
Infographic of the day: Resuming air travel
I found this 2019 Pop Sci article on airlines betting that in-flight VR and yoga would be the trick to long-haul flights. I would not jump to board a 10+ hour flight wearing a mask. So, despite this article not aging well, I suppose the title "plane amenities of the future" is accurate.
https://www.popsci.com/plane-amenities-of-the-future/
Bonus Round - Guilty Pleasures
I love the philosophical notion of fighting entropy. It is a losing battle (as the laws of thermodynamics tell us, more or less) but defines the human condition - we build things, landscape, and make monuments to our achievements, knowing it is all temporary. In this spirit, I have recently found my weekend afternoon YouTube grazing in the genre of restoration. The template involves rusty tools, dilapidated furniture, or other worn items being disassembled and made new by a silent pair of skilled (and seemingly disembodied) hands. And, the people to whom these hands belong are unsettlingly capable with sandblasters, stripping chemicals, and metal fabrication. Though my family mocks my viewing choices, I appreciate the commentary on humanity symbolized by repairing the antique hand-cranked hammer drill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTyZgOkWs4o
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMrMVIBtqFW6O0-MWq26gqw
and
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtdnhs-7KQOhqdWTLOtjKxw
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
P.S. Back on Monday
Advice to my children includes - don't make your wedding anniversary seven days after your wife's birthday and in the same week as Mother's Day. Too many stacked occasions cause logistical problems and sentimental compression.
---
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
-----
Ohio, whose Governor announced a lottery for adults and teens who vaccinate, is also having local news coverage of like this: " [In] Southwest Ohio there are 142 hospitalized with COVID-19, 36 are in the ICU, 28 are on ventilators. Zero have been vaccinated."
https://www.wlwt.com/article/covid-19-patients-total-170-at-local-hospitals-not-a-single-one-vaccinated/36356774#
and
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/12/ohio-vaccinated-adults-lottery-drawing-487726
And reactions on social media are mixed:
https://twitter.com/GovMikeDeWine/status/1392597516265435139
The CDC has published cuts of vaccination rates by age, gender, and race.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/index.html#vaccination-demographics-trends
Epidemiologists are starting to hug again (at a rate of 39% of 723 polled). The NY Times "What epidemiologists are doing" series continued yesterday with updated data. While physicians are probably more risk-averse than typical adults, I would generally encourage the "don't do anything they wouldn't do" mentality. Of course, my [un?]conscious bias is with the physicians, and one should think about the surveyed population. To that end, Nate Silver from fivethirtyeight.com started some insightful and entertaining commentary on this topic. The Twitter thread has several good reminders of the types of questions we should all be asking in critically evaluating surveys.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/upshot/covid-epidemiologists.html
and
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1392446275375833089
John Burn-Murdoch (the FT data visualization guy) wrote a fantastic tweetorial about the B.1.617.2 variant (currently spreading in India). This variant is highly contagious, but vaccinated adults who become infected are experiencing mild illness (not hospitalized or dying).
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1390666071724765185
and
https://twitter.com/DevanSinha/status/1390388896433942544
My kids are (again) scheduled to get the Pfizer vaccine on Saturday. With now FDA, CDC, and State of Maryland approvals, I hope the vaccination programs are ready for my 12 to 15-year-olds.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-hogan-lifts-restrictions-20210512-zujv76imw5gf7kfiuxrlzy2ezi-story.html
Infographic of the day: Resuming air travel
I found this 2019 Pop Sci article on airlines betting that in-flight VR and yoga would be the trick to long-haul flights. I would not jump to board a 10+ hour flight wearing a mask. So, despite this article not aging well, I suppose the title "plane amenities of the future" is accurate.
https://www.popsci.com/plane-amenities-of-the-future/
Bonus Round - Guilty Pleasures
I love the philosophical notion of fighting entropy. It is a losing battle (as the laws of thermodynamics tell us, more or less) but defines the human condition - we build things, landscape, and make monuments to our achievements, knowing it is all temporary. In this spirit, I have recently found my weekend afternoon YouTube grazing in the genre of restoration. The template involves rusty tools, dilapidated furniture, or other worn items being disassembled and made new by a silent pair of skilled (and seemingly disembodied) hands. And, the people to whom these hands belong are unsettlingly capable with sandblasters, stripping chemicals, and metal fabrication. Though my family mocks my viewing choices, I appreciate the commentary on humanity symbolized by repairing the antique hand-cranked hammer drill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTyZgOkWs4o
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMrMVIBtqFW6O0-MWq26gqw
and
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtdnhs-7KQOhqdWTLOtjKxw
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
P.S. Back on Monday
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