Commentary

Where the epidemic is by region, mostly declining around the country, with some uncertainty in the Midwest and Northeast.

Charts on hospital bed use and capacity in Minnesota tell a different story than that DOH spreads.

Not much happening in the research world, so a little plea for finding a way for us all to get out of the epidemic obsession.

The flood of research never stops, nor do my pithy observations on the epidemic.

An updated chart of LTC versus non-LTC death proportions.

Another look at year-over-year trends suggests we are in fact in for a wave, although more rounded than last fall.

Today is breakthru data release day for DOH and we updated the table of events.

More absolute trash from the DOH and some research summaries.

An informal capture of data from schools in an area of Minnesota/North Dakota finds that not wearing masks doesn't seem to raise transmission.

Compare the rates of change in vaxed versus unvaxed events.

The state is making it hard to interpret trends in breakthrough events, so we just give you an analysis of the data as reported.

Deaths by age group, showing an dramatic uptick among the elderly, who are heavily vaxed.

Another helpful update on epidemic events by age group.

Overview charts for every state!

An updated look at vaccination progress in our state, which has been pretty good, with little impact on recent events.