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Jan 26 2022

Breakthrough Events, January 24

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Breakthroughs are well over 50% of all cases in Minnesota and the raw number of breakthru hosps is substantial.
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Jan 26 2022

Minnesota Regional Cases, January 24

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The most highly vaxed parts of Minnesota had the earliest case surge and still have the highest case levels.
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Jan 26 2022

Prior Infection and Risk of Re-infection

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
The research is increasingly clear that a prior infection creates an immune response that is more protective against reinfection than vax creates.
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Jan 25 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 92

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
This research summary is a little more varied than just vax effectiveness.
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Jan 24 2022

Vaxed and Unvaxed Case Rates, January 21

By Kevin Roche Commentary 12 Comments
An update on case rates of hospitalization and death.
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Jan 24 2022

Length of Stay Analysis Updated

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another look at length of stay trends.
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Jan 24 2022

Analyzing Test and Case Backlogs at DOH

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An analysis of data processing lags at DOH.
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Jan 24 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 91

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Might be two sets of summaries today as we have a lot of research out there.
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Jan 22 2022

Week-Over-Week Charts, January 21

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Week-over-week charts are confounded by the ongoing DOH processing issues.
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Jan 22 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, January 21

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another year-over-year set of charts.
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Jan 22 2022

Age Structure Charts, January 21

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The age structure charts show the impact of massive testing in younger groups.
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Jan 22 2022

Younger Age Group Charts, January 21

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The supposed rise in younger age group hospitalizations is a mirage which DOH refuses to dispell, caused by incidental positive tests.
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Jan 22 2022

National Charts, January 20

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A national and regional case and death update.
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Jan 21 2022

We Are Slipping Down the K2 Bottleneck of Economic Disaster

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
A gloomy forecast for our standard of living over the next decade and likely beyond.
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Jan 21 2022

Heard of Immunity?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
We have population immunity in the correctly understood sense of the term and the epidemic is over in a rational world.
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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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