CV Pandemic Daily Notes 201117

CV01. Protection: Sharing Information, CV03. Information: Media Sharing of Vaccine Facts, CV22. Longue Duree: Non Fiction Comic about Public Health and Othering (Racism), CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Social Determinants of Health Drive Covid and Gun Violence, CV21.1. Military Not Savior of Vaccine Distribution CV23.2. Intentional Infection of LGBTQ, CV24. Norms: Normal in Abnormal Times, Hoarding, CV27. Learning: CDC No Longer Pushing to Reopen Schools, CV32. Anthromes: Hospitals

PDN Introduction.

CV01. Protection: U.S. Medical Leaders Urge Trump to Share Covid-19 Data with Biden as States Tighten Limits ^CV03. | Biden Advisers Urge Immediate Covid-19 Action as Infections Mount. Fauci Says Delayed Transition Is a Public Health Issue as Covid-19 Cases Soar Nationwide. As Donald Trump Ignores Deepening Coronavirus Crisis, Joe Biden Calls for Urgent Response. Biden Team to Meet with Coronavirus Vaccine Makers this Week as Trump Stonewalls Transition. Coronavirus Cases Are Spiking at Federal Agencies and with firing of key personnel this will degrade national security, CV response and government functions further. Biden: More People May Die If Trump Refuses to Coordinate on Vaccine Plans. Fauci Concerned about Slow Transition Between Trump and Biden. During Upheaval, Inauguration Prep Is a Comfort and Trump can truthfully claim his inauguration crowd was bigger. ^CV04 which in this case has a correlation to pettiness and revenge. U.S. Sees Record High Covid-19 Hospitalizations ^CV02. [Cartoon =2=]. ADDED Trump Absents His Administration at Covid Emergency Tipping Point Listicle.

            -A. ADDED: Trump Absents His Administration at Covid Emergency Tipping Point Listicle. 201119-CV20. 201125-CV04.

CV03. Information: Reporting on Coronavirus Vaccines: 5 Tips to Help Journalists Inject Audiences with the Facts. #1. Reporters must understand what the various levels of clinical trials can – and can’t – tell us. Be wary of announcements about scientific data made through press releases rather than academic journal articles. #2. Let your audience know now they could experience at least some mild side effects from Covid-19 vaccines. #3. Explain to audiences the demographics of the pools of patients used to test vaccines. #4. Help your audience understand the limits of what’s known about vaccines. #5. Build a network of sources, especially the kind who can walk you through study data.

CV22. Longue Duree: A Tale of Two Pandemics: A Nonfiction Comic about Historical Racial Health Disparities (pdf), uses comics journalism to highlight recent historical research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine ^CV20. Documenting Serious Issues with Comics Journalism. | American Medical Association Declares Racism a Public Health Threat Listicle.

            -A. MORE: Racism at the County Level Associated with Increased Covid-19 Cases and Deaths. An Anti Vaccine Film Targeted to Black Americans Spreads False Information, Covid's Devastation of Black Community Used as 'Marketing' in New Anti Vaccine Film. Anti Vaxxers Are Targeting Black People, Warns US Covid Adviser.

            -B. MORE: I’ve wondered if the antivax tendency to target minority groups is in part a hijacking by xenophobes, both white supremacists and ethnic/ religious minority factions who want to remain pure, and disinformation agents who see a social fracture to exploit. There is also the possibility the disinformation agents see a way to commit genocide of targeted groups by getting them to willingly participate in the own demise. Antivaxxers Invoke Segregation and Jim Crow to Attack Covid-19 Vaccination Requirements. Amelia Jamison Discusses Collision of Antivaccine Movement, Racism and Covid-19. Racist, Extremist, Antisemitic Conspiracies Surround Coronavirus Vaccine Rollout. At one time the antivaccine movement crossed political, economic, attention seekers and ideological boundaries, but is now becoming polarized to particular belief systems.

CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Doctors: Poor Health Response Drives Gun Violence and Covid. Public health experts say gun violence is an epidemic, and the way it spreads frustrates those trying to contain it. They point to easy access to high caliber weapons and poor public health infrastructure as key factors. 201228-CV21.

            -A. MORE: Aug 2022 Child Gun Deaths Skyrocketed During Covid Pandemic.

            CV23.1. Former Covid-19 Crisis Planner: Don't Expect 'Military Miracle' on Vaccine Distribution, Trump has indicated that the military will be the savior here, but the military has its limits ^CV28. Officials Clarify Military Role in Coronavirus Vaccination amid Wariness. Officials’ recent comments reflect growing concerns that conflicting messages and deep distrust could jeopardize a vaccine’s success. 201026-CV23.

            CV23.2. Anonymous Man with Covid Threatens to Go to Gay Bars to Spread His Infection.

CV24. Norms: Hoarding, Stockpiling, Panic Buying: What’s Normal Behavior in an Abnormal Time. 201114-CV28.

CV27. Learning: CDC Quietly Removes Guidance Pushing for School Reopenings.

CV32. Anthromes: The Hospital Multiple: Introduction. Since Covid-19 has come to haunt the globe, hospitals in all their guises have featured centrally in the pandemic response. As the flagships of health systems, hospitals have rapidly become the primary locus of medical care for Covid-19. They provide staff and beds for acute medical care; they can be rapidly deployed in the form of military field hospitals, mobile tents and impromptu mass treatment centers; and their level of occupation is used as a measure of pandemic severity. In many respects, Covid-19 has reaffirmed the power and centrality that hospitals hold in health systems worldwide.