Where are cases coming from in Minnesota?

Minnesota is in good shape on vaccinations.

A chart on the effectiveness of the Israeli vaccination program.

Another week in CV-19 hell, cranking out the research summaries.

The CDC releases a few studies on vaccine effectiveness.

My usual pithy, and sometimes barbed, observations and a few good research summaries.

One picture shows the entire course of the epidemic in cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

The evidence that Delta is not more transmissible is all around, if you just look.

More data on masks and cases in schools.

Trying to identify early indicators of trend changes.

Most of our population has Twitter-brain and just accepts gargage passed along by the mask religionists.

A few observations in a world gone mad and some research summaries.

Week-over-week percent change in hospitalizations is another way to look for trends in epidemic trajectory.

Regional charts allow you to both compare regions and see what is happening YOY in a particular region.

Trying to find another way to track trajectory, the percent change in cases for a day, week over week, has promise. Here are the initial charts.