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May 03 2022

Breakthrough Events, May 2 Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
Vaccine effectiveness against all events is diminishing in all age groups.
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May 03 2022

Breakthrough Events, May 2 Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The official numbers miss a huge amount of breakthrough cases that are identified by home testing, but this is truly an epidemic of the vaxed at this point.
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May 03 2022

Hospital Onset CV-19 Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A lot of people get CV-19 after being admitted to the hospital, way more than even the data says.
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May 03 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 133

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Some interesting research findings as the country undergoes a largely hidden wave of breakthrough Omicron infections.
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May 02 2022

A Couple More Health Research Summaries

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A few health research nuggets from the last couple of years, trying to catch up on a few of the more interesting pieces not related to the epidemic.
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May 02 2022

Age Structure Charts, April 29

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Even though cases are up somewhat, there is little evidence of serious disease.
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Apr 30 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 132

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
I just can't stop summarizing the CV-19 research, which maybe is a long-Covid symptom.
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Apr 29 2022

More Minnesota Rural Temperature Records

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More data on Minnesota rural weather station temperature trends.
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Apr 29 2022

Breakthrough Events, April 25, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Breakthrough events continue to rise in most age groups, both absolutely and as a proportion of all events.
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Apr 29 2022

Breakthrough Events, April 25, Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
We have an epidemic of the vaccinated and will going forward.
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Apr 28 2022

Going Back to Some Health Care Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
For a break some really uplifting health care research news, particularly on why we spend so much money on health care.
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Apr 28 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 131

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The barrage of research has slowed somewhat but I will keep providing summaries of what seems useful
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Apr 27 2022

The Futility of Suppressing a Respiratory Virus

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
A CDC study finds very high prevalence rates of CV-19 infection, particularly among children.
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Apr 26 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 130

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Interesting research continues to dribble in so I keep dribbling summaries out.
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Apr 24 2022

More Temperature Records from Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Interesting to look at actual Minnnesota temperature data from more rural sites. Some warming, some cooling, unclear why the difference.
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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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The Office of the Actuary annual report on national health spending, covering 2018.
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2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
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MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
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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 through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com. © Roche Consulting, LLC. Terms of Use.

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