Cold Covid - part the nineteenth

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
-- Aldous Huxley

The same view, it turns out, is true of Covid-ο. It's tedious, but spend some time with the graphs the NYT provides us. They're a mother lode of insight. Today's conundrum: Minnesota. Across the USofA, Covid-ο has meant a vertical increase in Covid-19, and Minnesota is a bit different. There are piquant differences with many other states.

- case count hasn't been a rocket launch, combining Covid-δ and Covid-ο starting in mid-December as in many/most of the other (even initial Cold Covid ones) states, but rather a 45-ish degree trudge since the minimum in late July, with a marked retracement at the end of December; that could well be non-reporting.

- a very odd hospitalization by age cohort graph. the other states have displayed a wide gap between the Geezer cohort and the rest. not Minnesota, where the cohorts are, by eye at least, equally separated. compare with New York.

- unlike many other states where deaths have budged only a tad, here they are tracking upwards with cases in nearly lockstep. compare with New York, for instance; completely different universe.

I, for one, wonder what Olsterholm has to say by way of explanation. He's in Minnesota, after all.

Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.