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Dec 01 2022

More on the Population Estimates Used For Vax Effectiveness

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
This is a complex and tricky issue, but it appears very clear from our analysis that DOH is using an approach that substantially exaggerates vaccine effectiveness in the 65 and…
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Nov 30 2022

Data Fiddling in the Estimates of Vax Effectiveness for the Over-65 Age Group

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More questionable methodological selections by Minnesota DOH lead to an overstatement of the effectiveness of the vaccines in the oldest age group.
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Nov 30 2022

Breakthrough Events, November 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A slightly delayed update to the data on cases, hospitalizations and deaths by vax status.
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Nov 30 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, November 28

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Despite some newspaper headlines, there is no sign of any significant uptick in CV-19 events.
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Nov 27 2022

No More Boosters

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
There really is no good reason for people to get endless numbers of CV-19 vaccine boosters, including the new "bivalent" one.
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Nov 26 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 178

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A truly tremendous set of research summaries covering excess deaths, bad effects of the epidemic response, vaccines, population immunity and other fascinating topics.
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Nov 25 2022

Influenza Season

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
We are supposedly in for a rough flu year, so Dave has dug out some comparative data.
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Nov 25 2022

You Can Find Real Climate Research if You Look

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More evidence on the naked attempts by most climate "scientists" to make data give answers they want.
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Nov 24 2022

Happy Thanksgiving

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
May you all have a peaceful and happy weekend.
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Nov 22 2022

Dr. Jha Is a Worthy Successor to Fauci

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The new liar/science denier in charge of the federal CV-19 response claims that the vax would prevent every death. You all know the Minnesota and national data shows quite the…
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Nov 22 2022

The Earth’s Climate System Is Very Resilient

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Earth's climate system has a variety of feedback mechanisms that reduce disturbance of trends over tens and hundreds of millions of years, and oh, by the way, it was a…
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Nov 22 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 177

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
More summaries of work on vaccine and prior infection impacts and mortality trends.
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Nov 21 2022

The Diesel Fuel Crisis Continues

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A sometimes under-appreciated part of the energy world is diesel fuel, which moves a lot of goods.
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Nov 21 2022

Year-Over-Year Comparison, November 17, 2022

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Still no sign of a fall/winter CV-19 wave.
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Nov 21 2022

Hospital Utilization, November 18

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Never fear, plenty of hospital capacity, always was, always will be, nothwithstanding Little Timmy's bedwetting.
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Kevin RocheThe 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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2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
October 1, 2019
MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
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April 5, 2026
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