Ten thousand new cases in the fully vaxed reported this past week. Yep, epidemic of the unvaxed.
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An update on relative case rates among the vaxed, unvaxed and prior infected.
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A lot of interesting research and perhaps the mood is changing on living with the virus.
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Despite extremely high vax rates, we are seeing the return to case growth in Minnesota.
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Humans being humans, we will learn nothing from this epidemic that allows us to respond more rationally to the next one.
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Snowbound in Minneapolis, so pumping out research summaries.
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Bright Health, like Oscar Health and a couple of others, was going to be a new kind of health plan. The company has raised zillions of dollars and even after a disastrous IPO, has raised more money now from investors including Cigna Health, which is bottom fishing. They clearly are hoping Cigna will eventually take them out of their misery. The reason they have to raise all this money is they keep spending it fruitlessly and not making anything like a profit. The notion that these guys can seriously compete with the UnitedHealth's of the world is absurd. People who have a lot of money to invest are not always smart.
https://medcitynews.com/2021/12/cigna-invests-in-bright-healths-750m-financing/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=194012125&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9ubhqD1ZOHTdBxn1o1hYV7_MMT8geX0qZ_LQ_s1gsVfKXLFaR3fQ1y-UX3mqCuDCy8Pm3-jylIJ0tg3LIV9KDPa6L2zhyjlPqnWLxVvEQfm1uCODs&utm_content=194012125&utm_source=hs_emailVaccines, vaccines, vaccines, is your whole life vaccines? Well, almost.
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A break from coronavirus because a medical study on another topic triggered my sensitive snowflake reaction to idiocy.
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Another in the unending round of research summaries on CV-19, plus the usual off-hand observations.
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An updated comparison of per capita rates for reinfections, breakthroughs, and cases in the unvaxed.
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A complicated attempt to use inadequate Minnesota data to determine case rates for the vaxed and unvaxed.
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Testing and cases are well correlated and it is more likely testing drives "cases" than the reverse.
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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.