Collecting some of my comments about Sacramento County's poor response to COVID19

Posted this rant on March 9

This does not seem like a good plan: "Sacramento County Announces New Mitigation Efforts COVID-19" https://t.co/5W3Dv4Lqr9 #COVID19 #Coronavirus - especially the plan to shift from containment to mitigation #Sacramento cc: @sacbee_news 1/n pic.twitter.com/dYUwEoUGb1

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 9, 2020

And then another rant

I think the Sacramento plan is problematic - if they are correct that it is time to ditch containment and move to mitigation then why is their mitigation plan among the weakest announced anywhere ? See https://t.co/mHnvLbdGGG https://t.co/mHnvLbdGGG

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 10, 2020

And this one

But couldn't you do quarantine for some people but not necessarily for health care workers?

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 10, 2020

And then Placer and Yolo County came out with their somewhat more aggressive plan

So #Yolo and #Placer counties have announced that they are also stopping containment efforts. I still think this is a bad idea but at least compared to #Sacramento county these counties are at least pushing the mitigation strategy a bit more strongly. See https://t.co/pbtsOMbmGN https://t.co/ZZlO2NtmFX

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 10, 2020

And more

The Sacramento County plan is a joke - 1) containment is still useful in some cases, they should not ditch it 2) their plan for mitigation (reducing community spread) is the most limited of any place I have seen in the country -see https://t.co/ZZlO2NtmFX

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 11, 2020

And this

Brutally behind the curve - Sacramento’s public health leader - Q&A: Sacramento’s top health official on what’s being done to stop the coronavirus outbreak https://t.co/enebtjqNkK

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 15, 2020

And another

So - I went through the #Sacramento County plan for dealing with #COVID19. It is bad. https://t.co/ek99YNBzSw

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 10, 2020

And this

Really incredibly important and calls into doubt the inane claims from #Sacramento, #Yolo and other local counties that we have to stop contact tracing and other containment actions https://t.co/qp5rE3uACg

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 11, 2020

And another

Really disappointed in #Sacramento health director’s approach: Sacramento County Health Director Defends Coronavirus Strategy, Says Lack Of Tests Made Containment Impossible - https://t.co/tiWN9gGBkS https://t.co/nqikmcSc67

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 14, 2020

And another

Really great article by @edyong209 about some of the problems with the UK #covid19 strategy and communications; sadly some similar things have been going on here in #Sacramento area https://t.co/jtdVqkfPel

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 16, 2020

My posts about #UCDavis and #Covid19

Going to use this page to keep track of some of what I have been posting about what is going on at UC Davis in regard to the coronavirus.  Will add more later ... but just going to use this to keep track.

February 26

Things blew up at @ucdavis with reports that the 1st community acquired case of COVID19 was at our hospital. I received an email about this that I eventually posted to Twitter (I waited to post until I saw others reporting this)

Email I received earlier today from @ucdavis Medical Center leaders regarding the case of apparently community acquired #COVID19 in #Sacramento at #UCDavis hospital pic.twitter.com/q9qrJq5iWo

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) February 27, 2020

Tons of stories came out over the next few weeks about this and I will add some links to them. But eventually, attention went elsewhere as the 1st large clusters of cases that were detected in the US ended up being in other locations.

March 7.

Actions from UC Davis announced regarding COVID19 was, well, better than nothing but pretty limited.

Announcement from @ucdavis re: #ucdavis #COVID19 #Coronavirus #SocialDistancing:

Will help increase social distancing but not going as far as I would like ... I hope this moves very soon from "recommend" to "require" https://t.co/khnnVCZFeN

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 8, 2020

Important announcement from @ucdavis: not as far as I would like but will help increase social distancing; hope they move from "encourage" to "require" soon ... #ucdavis #COVID19 #Coronavirus #SocialDistancing https://t.co/sqjGXO3fqF

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 8, 2020

March 10. 

UC Davis expanded actions.

Major new actions from @ucdavis regarding #COVID19 #Coronavirus h/t @TLowePower https://t.co/NLOLw2EaH0

— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) March 10, 2020

Some of my favorite books about infectious disease, viruses, bioweapons in relation to #Coronavirus #COVID19

I posted some pics of my books I brought home from work to look over in relation to the current coronavirus outbreak and some people asked if I could post a list. So here is a collection. I will update with other books.

I used Amazon links here b/c, well, that was really simple.


Infectious Diseases

 


Biological Warfare

 

General Information about Viruses

 

What's worse than not cancelling your conference during #COVID19? How about a #MANEL #YAMMM during #COVID19.

Well got invited to this meeting "Non-Coding RNAs In Biology & Medicine Conference".  And I looked up the meeting so I could see if the meeting was still on and if yes, to then encourage the organizers to encourage them to postpone the meeting to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus going around.

And alas, the meeting still on - April 2-4, 2020
As a side note, it is around the corner from where I used to work (it is in the same general area as where TIGR used to me).

And, alas, on top of the meeting apparently still being on, it is also what appears to be a MANEL - a meeting with a highly skewed gender balance of speakers.  I say "what appears to be" since I just do not have time right now to do what I frequently do which is to look up people's personal websites to see how they describe themselves in terms of gender.  So I am basing this entirely on names and appearance but it does not look like a good balance.

Not a good look Johns Hopkins and USUHS,

#1 - due to #COVID19 this conference should be cancelled
#2 - due to the apparently extreme gender skew for the speakers, this conference is one I would encourage people to not attend anyway.