More summaries of work on vaccine and prior infection impacts and mortality trends.

A sometimes under-appreciated part of the energy world is diesel fuel, which moves a lot of goods.

Still no sign of a fall/winter CV-19 wave.

Never fear, plenty of hospital capacity, always was, always will be, nothwithstanding Little Timmy's bedwetting.

An excellent paper helps understand the potential role of natural variation in what many wrongly refer to as human-caused climate change.

Another update on the age structure of the epidemic, this time segregated by vax status.

Currently there is no evidence that vax or boosting is have a big impact on infection or hospitalization risk for this group.

For the oldest persons, vax and boosting appear to still offer substantial protection against infection and hospitalization.

There is currently no protection against infection and limited protection against hospitalization in this large age group.

Adolescents also have almost no benefit from vaccination.

For this age group, the data provides little support for encouraging vaccination.

As has been the case for months, people who are vaccinated or vaccinated and boosted account for over 70% of each type of breakthrough event.

Jan Malcolm departs the scene but not our research summaries.

California setting a record going from a big budget surplus to a big deficit. And Newsom thinks Floridians, who have no income tax, should want to come to his state.

As time passes, pretty clear vaxing and boosting have a waning effect on epidemic events.