Schools are opening, so school terrorism will abound and our children will suffer greatly. We have to stop this.
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A lot of research summaries, a couple on more important studies will follow this morning.
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An update on the new week-over-week daily change in cases and hospitalizations, which is a good leading indicator for epidemic course.
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Per capita charts of rates of infection among the vaxed and unvaxed in Minnesota, with important caveats.
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No sign that Delta is causing more serious disease in young people.
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Another cohort analysis, showing a rise in case rates of hospitalization with a smaller bump in death rates.
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The case rise is pretty evenly spread across Minnesota's regions.
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Testing is rising in all age groups as Delta terror spreads.
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Our beloved Governor, the inestimable Incompetent Blowhard, pauses the blizzard of words long enough to think for a second, and realizes that we can't suppress CV-19 and will have to…
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A late nite blast of observations and the usual vaccine-heavy summaries.
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A new chart on the proportion of breakthrough cases, hospitalizations and deaths among all such events in Minnesota.
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More health care company valuation insanity. Ginger, a mental telehealth company, spices up its offerings by merging with Headspace, which offers a meditation app. Ginger's management should have meditated on this deal a bit more. The merged company is supposedly valued at $3 billion, for a company that claims to have $300 million in bookings, whatever that means. The only reason people invest in this kind of garbage is they don't know what else to do with their capital and they believe in the greater fool theory--they can sell to someone else before people figure out what a dud they have.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/digital-health/ginger-and-headspace-plan-to-merge-to-scale-up-comprehensive-digital-mental-health?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=Mjk0LU1RRi0wNTYAAAF_HZov5LSGcdQSuFAZWkpYq2U70X3U_jABtaeWuMaJEg7v1EijaFm5zLevWqQ6fhVqGoRyIlMwJCA6sKhhyL_ZDsqSEna07V9xZaV-6C4bh67xPj0Carbon Health is going to burn investors to a crisp, acquiring two urgent care chains in recent days. The company raised a lot of funding and is splashing it out there. It wants to be the country's biggest primary care provider. Investors are likely to need mental health care in the next few years.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/carbon-health-scoops-up-two-major-clinic-chains-to-expand-primary-care-footprint?mkt_tok=Mjk0LU1RRi0wNTYAAAF_HEYicqDEQd57qpk3eOaZvsSsUygLkSOvyvNk3WnwgorH-soyzU7DfompvD5Z8nu3Eq29qFF1veXDOwIBEye_tHESx3FNJYd8gT0aL0UIGuLkbBI&mrkid=635530About this Blog
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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