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Aug 01 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, July 29

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The ongoing look at the big picture epidemic trend.
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Jul 30 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 156

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another in the endless stream of summaries on CV-19 related research.
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Jul 30 2022

Age Structure Charts, July 28, Population Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Population rates for different age groups show a continued plateau for events, but we are missing almost all infections due to home testing.
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Jul 30 2022

Age Structure Charts, July 28, Raw Numbers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another week of basically similar numbers of events, no fall, perhaps a slight increase.
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Jul 30 2022

Wastewater Metrics, July 26

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Another crappy analyis of wastewater levels of CV-19 viral remnants.
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Jul 29 2022

Renewable Energy is a Fantasy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
Charts of where our energy actually comes from on a daily basis shows what a fantasy it is to imagine that renewables can meet our needs.
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Jul 29 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 28, Overall Population

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another week of breakthrough reporting continues to show little protection against infection and modest effectiveness against serious disease.
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Jul 29 2022

Unprecendented Warmth, My Uhhh, Rear

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
In the current environment of ideological science, it pays to do your own research on what really drives climate trends and what those trends actually are.
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Jul 29 2022

Ukraine Update

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Russians are masters at dis-information, but the truth is that their military and economy are being devastated by the war in Ukraine. And that is a good thing as long…
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Jul 28 2022

Geographical Variation in Health Spending by Payer

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another study takes a look at variation in spending by payer across geographic regions.
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Jul 26 2022

Emperor Fauci, Lord of the “Science”

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
For whatever reason, the Great Lord Fauci is incapable of keeping his mouth shut and has done a number of enlightening recent interviews.
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Jul 26 2022

Year-Over-Year Comparisons, July 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Year-over-year patterns are seriously distorted by certain facts, but still interesting to look at.
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Jul 26 2022

Hospital Onset CV-19 Updated

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Not only are most hospitalizations attributed to CV-19 not for treatment but some people actually get infected in the hospital.
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Jul 25 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 21, Overall Population

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Another week of breakthrough data demonstrates that the epidemic is largely occurring in the vaxed and boosted.
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Jul 25 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 21, Ages 65 and Over

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In the oldest age groups, there is some effectiveness of vax against infection and hospitalization.
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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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This is an outstanding report on total global drug spending and trends, with projections out to 2025.  It helps you understand this important area of health care, which does much...
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2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
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