A new paper associates a decline in religiousity with more self-destructive behavior.

An interesting study finds that patients appear to be treated with better satisfaction by a specialist who knew the referring doctor.

An initial look at Dave's calculation of excess deaths in Minnesota during the epidemic years.

VSNs jump on a CDC statement, obviously without reading it.

A vax and prior infection heavy set of summaries with a couple of odds and ends thrown in.

Supposed global warming is driven by erroneous methods of measuring actual temperature changes.

The headline of the referenced post says it all "Biden Is Lying About the Jobs Data."

A number of studies or articles on key epidemic topics.

Unfortunately, even in the elderly vaccines and boosters ofter no protection from infection and very limited protection against hospitalization.

For this age group also, there is no current benefit from vax in preventing cases and limited protection against hospitalization.

For the primary young and early middle-age group, vax do nothing to prevent infection, but may limit hospitalization risk.

The other age group including children similarly shows no benefit of vax.

The youngest age group continues to show basically no benefit from vax.

Due to school closures and isolation of children, weakened immune system development led to a massive wave of RSV infections this season, particularly in infants and toddlers.

Minnesota's influenza season appears to have peaked, and was one of the highest in recent years.