It is a good thing Arka Kinari will be heading southwesterly towards Indonesia. Because Typhoon Jangmi is just off Taiwan and heading northerly! Hopefully the typhoon stays on track and keeps heading northerly.
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| Arka Kinari is the red dot near the center; Indonesia is in the lower left corner. |
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| Arka Kinari is near the lower right corner. |
We went to Curtis & Lori's house for dinner tonight. It is a belated birthday dinner for me; I was on the Big Island for my birthday. As a child I spent nearly all my birthdays on the Big Island since I am a summer baby and we would always go there for the summer. There is only one birthday I remember having in Honolulu, though there might have been more. I wasn't really in to birthdays as a child and that hasn't changed.
Lori did not have any dessert made so I dropped by Otto Cake to pick up some cheesecake for dessert; The Potential Most Favorite Roommate also picked up fancy cupcakes; but I was too distracted to take photos of those. The cheesecake selections tonight were Strawberries in White Chocolate, Snickers, Turtles (like the candy), and Lychee.
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| The choices. |
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| The selections. |
While there we watched several cooking videos. One was a guy making custard filled doughnuts; the other was a Korean street food vendor making souffle pancakes (I came in at about 10 minutes when he was cracking about 5 dozen eggs).
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| Vanilla Custard Cream Donuts (No Oven). |
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| How to make Souffle Pancake with Fresh Egg in Korea - Korean Street Food. |
I got an email from Alaska Airlines this morning, making it sound like they will help provide social distancing! If I book a flight with another person, they will leave the middle seat vacant and give us the whole row to ourselves! Hawaiian Airlines keeps that middle seat vacant on all flights unless you specifically want it filled with someone you are traveling with. Come on, Alaska! Get with the program of following the physical distancing guidelines and keeping your customers safe!
To be expected, there has been a lot in the news about the COVID-19 outbreak in various locations. More firefighters have tested positive for a total of 14 in 3 different fire stations. Another bus driver has tested positive; this time though, the driver did not have symptoms while driving and was placed in quarantine as soon as the test came back. Two more OCCC inmates have tested positive bringing that total up to 3; there are fears of more inmates coming down with COVID-19 due to the overcrowded conditions.
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| I am really surprised at how they can give such detailed info that makes it easy to figure out who the driver is. |
I love data; so I went in search of information on the department of health's website for more data about their contact tracing program. I found some info but not the type of metrics that Resolve to Save Lives says is really needed to show how successful they have been with their contact tracing. And what I did find was confusing. For example, why is the number of "Trained Contact Tracers" different than what the University of Hawai'i has said they have trained. But they say this graphic will be updated every Monday (unless its a holiday, then it will be the next day), so I will be presenting that each week as well. I love data.
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| What does "total Surge Staff" mean? Where is data on how long it takes before a case is contacted. |
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| Definitions are good, but how are "investigator" & "surge staff" defined? |
The news coverage of an unannounced visit by some state senators to the department of health offices was also somewhat confusing. The reporter and legislators seemed to be using the terms "investigator" and "contact tracer" interchangeably for most of the report. From other information I have seen and heard, they are 2 different people. And in the video it also shows them doing different things. The piece ends by saying the department anticipates having 40 more contact tracers by the end of next week; as I noted above I will be watching their website for that information.
I had been hoping more information consistent with that noted by Resolve to Save Lives would be showing up on the website based on what Dr. Anderson had said in a press conference last week about needing to provide more information. But there is hope, apparently the state legislature is also concerned and the House COVID-19 Committee has been asking for more data. Hopefully, they are pushing for the kind of data RTSL says is needed and that it is presented in a useful manner. A big piece that is missing is how long it takes a for a person to be contacted by a contact tracer after their positive test result has been reported to the department of health; the RTSL metric suggests a target of 80% or more within 48 hours of notification. As seen in the video above, that does not appear to be happening now.
Some of the graphics Dr. Ric presents on the COVID-19 statistics for the state are from the Hawai'i Data Collaborative; it is presented in a more useful format than the department of health information. I think I will be switching to their format for the summary graphic.
There were 231 new COVID-19 cases reported today, bringing the total of known p0sitive cases up to 3346. Five new cases were on Hawai'i Island, 2 were in Maui County, and the remainder were on O'ahu. There was another death reported, bringing that total to 31.
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| This summary graphic will be replaced with the one from Hawai'i Data Collaborative. |
Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Paul, Nora, & Dominique! A me ka Hauʻoli lā Hoʻomanaʻo ʻumi kūmāono e Bick & Ron! A me ka Hauʻoli lā Hoʻomanaʻo ʻehā e Leigh & Lenny!
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