Before I step into the future, one item about today, COVID-19 booster shots.  I've said this a hundred times, at least, but make this perhaps number 101:    boosters help keep people out of the hospital . This was a recent study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association Inter Medicine: Data from more than 192,000 adults in 13 U.S. states who had been hospitalized this year with this virus between January and April were analyzed. This was  before  the BA.5 and BA.4 subvariants took over. Even then, UNVACCINATED PEOPLE WERE 10.5 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE HOSPITALIZED THAN PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN FULLY VACCINATED AND BOOSTED (note that this was the original booster). How important was that early booster?  People who were vaccinated but not boosted were 2.5 times more likely to end up in the hospital than those who had received a booster. Note that the second booster did not arrive until after the time period of this analysis.  I would h...