Not much in the way of useful research, so just doing an interim post on a few studies.
Our economy is blessed with high inflation and low growth, a recipe for a satisfied electorate. Oh wait, maybe it is supposed to be the other way around.
Another sign of waning benefit of vax and boosters in regard to death is the proportion of LTC deaths and of deaths over age 75.
Another week of breakthrough events is released by DOH, with vaxed events continuing to dominate.
On and on it goes, and so do the research summaries.
Another look at the week-over-week analysis shows uncertainty over direction of epidemic.
The epidemic winds own with a very low rate of actual case detection, but also a very low rate of any serious disease. Let’s let it go.
The latest in the regular series showing the age distribution of all events during the epidemic.
The final age group, everyone over age 65, where boosters show continuing benefit.
On to the middle aged group for our breakthrough event analysis.
On to the 118 to 49 age group, where there appears to be some remaining benefit of vax in preventing hospitalization.
The next age group for the detailed breakthrough analysis is the 12-17 year-olds.
Medicare covers about a fifth of all Americans and the hospital part of the program has an imminent financing crisis.