The latest cohort analysis. I am not going to be surprised if we see some very slight uptick in hospitalization or death rates in coming weeks. As vaccination rates get very high, the only people likely to get serious disease are those frail elderly, and others, with weakened immune systems. These people will remain susceptible to both infection and serious disease. Testing will drop as most breakthrough infections will be completely asymptomatic and the irrational random testing winds down. So fewer “cases” will be reported but we could see more serious disease among those cases that are detected. Thanks to DD.
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