What's wrong with the USA?  Clearly, a fully completed vaccination sequence for COVID-19 keeps you alive.   Boosted Americans 97 times less likely to die of this virus than the unvaccinated !!!  We did okay about the two Pfizer/Moderna and one Johnson & Johnson dosages.  Sure, Republicans and a few other categories were laggard.  However, the whole country seems now to be dawdling over the essential booster. The science is overwhelming: A recent study from Israel,   published in The New England Journal of Medicine , was clarifying. For both the elderly and people between 40 and 59, severe illness and death were notably lower among the boosted than the merely vaccinated. For adults younger than 40, serious illness was rare in both groups — but even rarer among the boosted: Of the almost  two million  vaccinated people ages 16 to 39 in the study, 26 of the unboosted got severely ill, compared with  only one boosted person. First, I've ...