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Jan 28 2022

Younger Age Group Charts, January 27

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A closer look at the young age groups.
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Jan 28 2022

Age Structure Charts, January 27

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Always good to keep with epidemic trends by age group.
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Jan 28 2022

Regional Cases and Deaths and National Animation, January 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Omicron is oh so over.
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Jan 27 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 94

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Almost caught up on the research, so this summary set should facilitate an afternoon nap.
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Jan 27 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 93

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A motley collection of research summaries.
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Jan 27 2022

A Brief Update on My Struggle to Get the State to Give the Citizens Information

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
I am continuing to fight to force DOH and the State to release information the public is entitled to see and know.
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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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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...
March 10, 2026
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...
March 4, 2026

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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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