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Feb 11 2022

Event Processing Lags

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Variation in event processing time confounds an analysis of epidemic trends.
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Feb 10 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 103

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
Vaccines, vaccines, vaccines--that is the overwhelming body of research today, with a few oddballs thrown in.
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Feb 10 2022

Getting CV-19 in the Hospital

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
A federal database gives a hint as to the substantial fraction of people who actually acquire CV-19 in the hospital.
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Feb 10 2022

Age Structure by Type of Infection

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Proportions of types of infection by age group.
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Feb 10 2022

Case Wave Trajectory

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Do significant pandemic waves have a defined curve?
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Feb 08 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 102

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Another edition of the never-ending research on CV-19 and epidemic responses.
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Feb 08 2022

Breakthrough Events, February 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Our updated look at breakthrough events, a little concerning what is happening in the oldest age group.
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Feb 07 2022

We Are at 50% Breakthrus!!

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
We are crossing the line into breakthrough events being the majority of cases, hosps and deaths after another week of massive event reporting in the vaxed.
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Feb 07 2022

Survival and Hospital Avoidance Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Survival rates and hospital avoidance rates are kind of an inverse method of looking at case rates.
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Feb 07 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 101

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Another pathetic CDC study and a surprising number of really interesting pieces of research for this summary.
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Feb 05 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, February 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another updated set of year-over-year charts.
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Feb 05 2022

Week-Over-Week Charts, February 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The week-over-week charts confirm the rapid plunge in cases.
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Feb 05 2022

Vaxed and Unvaxed Rates, February 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
We try to replicate the DOH's approach to calculating per capita event rates by age, an exercise which raises a lot of questions.
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Feb 05 2022

Younger Age Groups, February 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
No big jump in cases or other events in younger age groups.
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Feb 05 2022

Age Structure Charts, February 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The current wave is winding down, with little blips in some age groups.
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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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Eight Sleep, another one of those weird names that litter health care, raised a new round of capital which supposedly values the company at $1.5 billion.  Eight Sleep sells sleep...
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Simplistically, high health spending is due to high hospital prices, which is due to excessive market power.  An article shows just how concentrated most US hospital markets are.   In...
March 10, 2026
Mental health companies are very hot.  Virtual mental health services provider Talkspace is being bought by hospital operator Universal Health for around $835 million, a high multiple of revenue and...
March 10, 2026
There are so many health care companies that people struggle to come up with names and we end with weird stuff like Grow Therapy, which nonetheless raised $150 million to...
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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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