Oh, also regarding "hospitalization rates for 65+". Those numbers, and the case numbers for all ages, have been an inflated lie from the beginning. So, they can go down whenever the CDC wants them to.
A whole lot of people in hospitals were told they had covid simply because they had flu symptoms(or no symptoms at all) and a positive PCR test, the results of which have been complete BS. It was never even an honest method of determining an infection. Most doctors weren't prepared to have to discern between truth and falsehood from the CDC. They just followed protocol. I know so many people who were told they had covid, and they never even had a symptom.