Curiously, once again, today's update to the page where CDC lists numbers of hospitalizations/deaths from COVID19 among those fully vaccinated against COVID19 h

Curiously, once again, today's update to the page where CDC lists numbers of hospitalizations/deaths from COVID19 among those fully vaccinated against COVID19 has not occurred yet[1]. Maybe it will come, maybe it won't. Back in August, they postponed the update to occur after the approval of Pfizer's vaccine was announced. Today, the head of CDC overruled the advisory panel to recommend boosters[3]. I did teach "Economics of Regulation" for a bunch of semesters, and, this is a textbook example of regulatory capture. If you are curious, currently, the rate of known cases of hospitalization _from_ COVID19 among the fully vaccinated stands at 5.1/100,000, seemingly headed for the neighborhood of 1/10,000. Imagine a world in which 1/20,000 people fully vaccinated against measles could expect to be hospitalized with measles or 1/100,000 could expect to die. In 2018, there were a total of 337 _cases_ (no breakdown of deaths/hospitalizations in the reference source) of measles in among U.S. residents. Only 42 of them were vaccinated.[4,5] In 2019, there were only 121 measles cases among the vaccinated population. No deaths from measles as far as I can see. Now, that's a vaccine that protects you and others. Please do not skip MMR. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210924162349/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html https://web.archive.org/web/20210924162349/https://www.cdc.g... [2]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre... [3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/world/covid-boosters-vaccine-cdc-director.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/world/covid-boosters-vacc... [4]: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/downloads/measlesdataandstatsslideset.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/measles/downloads/measlesdataandstatssli... [5]: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html