Johns Hopkins

I started out the morning by starting the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Contact Tracing course. Apparently some jurisdictions will accept the certificate received after completing this training to be a contact tracer; for us its just another piece if we choose to do it. The training is free until the end of the year. I have been told it is about 6 hours total; this 1st part was about an hour long.

The yellow particles are SARS-CoV-2.

At the end of each module there is a short quiz. You need to pass with 85% in order to pass the training.












Notice that 95% of people infected begin to show symptoms within 14 days; which means that 5% take more than 14 days.



For you visual learners, these 2 graphics show the incubation & infectious periods and how they overlap with the signs & symptoms.

Darn! Did not get 100% on this one.

Over the courses of the pandemic, treatment to support the patient has been evolving as more is discovered about the virus & its effects.







Timing is everything.

The red line is where contact tracers are most effective.

It's a good thing measels isn't more deadly than it is.

This is what happens if we don't physically distance, wear masks or wash our hands.

Each of us can help break the infection chain.

The guest lecturer for today was unable to be with us in person, so Dr. C played the video of Jeanelle Sugimoto-Matsuda's presentation to Cohort #1 for us this morning. She spoke on Public Health Communication.

Jeanelle gave us a little info about herself & how she got in to public health.

Jeanelle used a project with youth suicide prevention by youth groups as an example of health communications.



Each of the youth groups came up with a message.











We watched a TED Talk  by Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick and how she developed the Dr. Lisa on the Street videos to help teach people about health literacy.







During the last 45 minutes of class, Dr. C. had the teams get together to discuss their projects for Dr. Ric's class. Since we have finished our "of the Day" presentation, we are concentrating on our final hoʻike presentation. We brainstormed a bout 8 or 9 different ideas. Malia had created the initial Goggle slides again, I made a slide for each of the ideas, and Michael sent out a quick graphic he made with the Bat signal with a mask on over Waikiki. It put the graphic on a slide and added the text; other people will work on the other ideas over the next week or so.


Last night The Roommates brought back some chicken enchilada that Briy & Dylan made. I had part of one for lunch. Yum!


After lunch I did the 2 HIPAA modules for MRC volunteers. Both of these are needed for anyone working with confidential health information. One module is on HIPAA regulations and the other is on information security as it relates to HIPAA information. I started with the Security Awareness Training.





Not sure what happened here but I'm missing a bunch of slides here about what you're supposed to do at your work station.









































After a short break, I did the HIPAA Privacy Training.






































In the news today we have passed the 3000 case benchmark. There has been anotheremployee at Family Court that has tested positive. The annual RIMPAC exercises have started; it's a little smaller this year and none of the exercises are going to take place on land.




The disturbance south of us is and continuing  westerly. There are no other disturbances nearby.


Today there were only 174 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 5215 known positive cases. There were no new deaths but there were 5 more hospitalizations.











This graphic has not changed since August 3rd, even though it says it is updated every Monday. I originally found this graphic on August 8th. I am hoping that with the new head of contact tracing this will be updated and additional meaningful data is made publicly available.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Kathryn, Billy Boy & DeAndre!