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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

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
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

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
In the oldest age groups, there is some effectiveness of vax against infection and hospitalization.
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Jul 25 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 21, Ages 50 to 64

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In this older adult age group, vax shows no protection against infection, but some against hospitalization.
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Jul 25 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 21, Ages 18 to 49

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Younger adults may be protected by vax against hospitalization, but not infection.
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Jul 25 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 21, Ages 12 to 17

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
For this age group there is zero benefit of vaccination against either infection or hospitalization.
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Jul 25 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 21, Ages 5 to 11

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
CV-19 infected children are more likely to have been vaxed than unvaxed.
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Jul 25 2022

Age Structure Charts, July 21, Population Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The population rates by age sub-group are relatively stable.
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Jul 25 2022

Age Structure Charts, July 21, Raw Numbers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The update to the ongoing tracking of the age structure of epidemic events.
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Jul 24 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 155

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another drop of vaccine heavy research summaries.
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Jul 22 2022

So Much to Write About, So Little Brainpower to Do It

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Teachers' and school administrators' twisted interest in children's gender or sexuality is not harmless as a report finds soaring rates of child sexual abuse by these professions.
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Jul 20 2022

Mask Studies Get Their Own Post

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another dismal study for mask usage, finding that they are in fact pathogen collection devices.
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Jul 20 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 154

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
I have not given up on providing summaries of relevant CV-19 research.
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Jul 20 2022

Life and Death

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
The unexpected death of a close friend is a shock to the quotidian routines of life.
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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...
June 1, 2021
The Office of the Actuary annual report on national health spending, covering 2018.
December 7, 2019
2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
October 1, 2019
MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
June 18, 2019

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GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 2026
Garner Health isn’t gathering any accolades from me, as it raises a new round of $100 million in capital at about a $2.5 billion valuation.   The company supposedly steers...
June 2, 2026
IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 2026
Innovacer, which basically collects data on a patient from multiple sources and aggregates it, raised an astounding $275 million in new capital, supposedly at a valuation of almost $3.5 billion....
April 22, 2026

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About 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 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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