A gloomy forecast for our standard of living over the next decade and likely beyond.
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We have population immunity in the correctly understood sense of the term and the epidemic is over in a rational world.
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IBM ending a huge bust in its health care efforts, selling its Watson health care assets to a PE firm. IBM spent a fortune building this and claimed it would revolutionize health care, but it has very limited clinical utility. More hype in health care.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/ibm-sells-watson-health.html?origin=CIOE&utm_source=CIOE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&oly_enc_id=4013B4524489F1YMore lunacy, kind of ironic for a mental health company, as Lyra Health raises a fresh $235 million in capital at over a $5 billion valuation. Just gonna say the company will never earn enough money to justify that valuation. But institutional investors work on the greater fool principle--they think they can always find someone stupider to take a dumb investment off their hands.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/digital-health/lyra-health-gets-235m-soars-to-5-85b-valuation-new-acquisition-for-global-expansion?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HC-NL-FierceHealthIT&oly_enc_id=4679D3169845B3YGlimmers of hope, likely only to be crushed by the tanks of Tiananamen Square, also known as the politicians and "experts" who run our epidemic response about as well as…
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Minnesota may have peaked, but the screwed up data processing of recent weeks makes it hard to say definitively.
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Another chart view of infections among the vaxed, unvaxed and prior infected.
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The updated proportion of breakthru events from the weekly data dump.
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A huge week for breakthroughs, including a lot of hosps.
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Vaccines, infection-derived immunity, masking, we cover it all here.
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I went back and looked at my ads from almost two years ago.
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Gloomy, cold weekend in Minnesota and the tiresome choir of doing research summaries never seems to end.
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Week-over-week charts show big jump in cases, but a potential approach to peak.
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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. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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