Two new papers cast further doubt on the wisdom of school closings and lockdown type interventions.

Hmmm, explain this, especially Florida and California.

Minnesota's vaccine administration effort is very poor compared to most of its neighbors.

More research summaries on the usual topics.

The US has voluntarily turned itself into an ideologically driven idiocracy enforced by a few big tech companies.

Ireland is the latest country to find the incredible benefits of mandating mask wearing in stopping transmission in the community.

A clear example of how the media will treat the exact same state outcomes very differently, depending on their perception of state leadership.

Summaries of a number of papers published by the CDC or done by CDC staff.

Catching up on a few research summaries.

No change in how age-bifurcated the epidemic is and how little risk there is to young people. My favorite set of charts to understand the epidemic, along with active cases.

A few observations on the IB's latest inane performance and some related research.

A little more research on the futility of lockdown tactics and the harms they cause to health.

Cases have dropped to the background level, all on their own.

Charts of long-term care deaths by state are illuminating. We are twisting into pretzels over a lot of deaths of people with a few months to live. Every teen suicide…

Hospitalization and death rates continue to show stability or even slight declines.