Hospitals are an expensive health care setting, so for decades policy has attempted to lessen hospital use, which has some unintended consequences, as revealed by the epidemic. One emerging trend has been "hospital at home", in which all the expensive equipment is placed, and monitoring of a patient is literally done, at their home. Mayo Clinic and Kaiser have both invested in a company facilitating hospital at home capabilities, putting as much as $100 million into Medically Home Group.
https://www.axios.com/mayo-clinic-kaiser-permanente-medically-home-1f6eade9-0dd9-4cae-a2bf-0f5b52ce382b.html?mkt_tok=ODUwLVRBQS01MTEAAAF9BKyhFiKNAsQmtHy2_cXr7Q6R4RlX4Yvx8kelMMyG1QD07rHkVViDBaRIX0-Sahr5tHKaa7a-tRR6VUzYoManr2PzNYH8e2H_I1uJGUSCsI4JMore charts showing the true state of hospital use by younger age groups.
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An interesting comparison of mask-mandate and non-mask mandate states.
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Bouncing around on an airplane and still getting off some research summaries.
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A quick set of research summaries, more later and another set of charts.
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India has a lot of cases and deaths, but isn't close to what the UK experienced.
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A chart of deaths by state, adjusted for population age-structure, is revealing.
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Yippee, its spring and I spring some more research summaries on you.
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Health care is a fifth of the economy. Everyone wants a piece, including Walmart, which just purchased a telemedicine company, MeMD, for an undisclosed sum. Walmart has increasingly added health care services to its original pharmacy business, including in-store clinics. At least with Walmart, health care probably is made more affordable.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/telehealth/walmart-health-to-acquire-telehealth-provider-6-details.html?origin=CIOE&utm_source=CIOE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&oly_enc_id=4013B4524489F1YA few more observations on Minnesota's lightening up on lockdown measures and the usual medley of research summaries.
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LTC residents as a source of CV-19 deaths has dropped dramatically.
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A great chart of trends in hospitalization rates by age group. You clearly do not see any evidence of an increase in the rate for younger cohorts, especially children and…
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Getting caught up on research again, and a glimmer of "normality" in Minnesota.
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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.