The shift to weekly reporting causes a little gymnastics but we can keep doing the age structure reporting.

LTC resident deaths have risen as a proportion of all deaths, due to waning vax effectiveness and refreshing of the vulnerable pool.

We are surely and more rapidly becoming a country segregated by politics.

Indoctrination and ignorance are to blame for the mass delusion that we have a climate crisis or that renewable energy could fix that non-existent crisis.

A few items to start our truncated work week.

Our nation is in a perilous state and our current national government and many state ones are only worsening our condition.

The most racist, bigoted group in America are the supposedly enlightened pro(re)gressives.

Minnesota reduces the rate of data reporting, which is overdue, and a few more research summaries.

Boosters appear to have the most effectiveness in the elderly, who are most at risk.

For this age group, no protection of boosters against infection, but some protection against hospitalization.

In this age group being boosted is associated with a greater risk of infection, but offers some protection against hospitalization.

Not much point in vaccinating 12 to 17 year-olds either.

A series of age group posts on breakthroughs follows, starting with 5-11 year olds, where vaccination is pointless anyway.

Another week, another decline in booster effectiveness.