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Cohort Analysis, December 29

By December 31, 2021Commentary1 min read

This is our ongoing attempt at following any trend in case rates for hospitalizations and deaths.  As you see, remarkably stable over the entire epidemic, despite crazy variations in testing and our bizarre attribution of hosps and deaths to CV-19.  As usual, I will point out the summer blip in hosp and death rates, which is purely due to not testing kids in school as much, so the total “cases” drop and rates look like they go up.  I am tempted to say that this likely is the background rate we will see forever, as this virus just becomes one of several we routinely deal with.  Thanks to Dave Dixon.

Kevin Roche

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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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