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Nov 01 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 47

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
After a lovely holiday weekend, some frightful and terrifying research summaries.
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Oct 30 2021

Age Structure Charts, October 28

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Age structure charts display the large number of deaths in the very old and the very few hospitalizations in children.
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Oct 29 2021

The Minnesota Department of Health Reaches Despicable New Lows

By Kevin Roche Commentary 14 Comments
In a new low of ethical behavior, the DOH uses misinformation and fear to push parents to vaccinate kids when it likely has no benefit and some risk to them.
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Oct 29 2021

Year-Over-Year Charts, October 27

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Year-Over-Year Comparison also reveals the offset timing of this year's wave in the second half of the year, as well as the current rollover.
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Oct 29 2021

Week-Over-Week Changes, October 27

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Cases and hospitalizations in Minnesota appear to be on an increasing declining trend, which likely has nothing to do with vaccinations.
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Oct 28 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 46

By Kevin Roche Commentary 14 Comments
If you look at the research these days, it is all about vaccines.
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Oct 28 2021

Hospitalizations, October 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Hospitalization use for supposed CV-19 patients is dropping in Minnesota.
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Oct 28 2021

Updated Overview Chart, October 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Big picture update suggests we are rolling over on cases and hospitalizations.
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Oct 27 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 45

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
A few quick observations and summaries from the road.
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Oct 26 2021

Breakthru Event Table, October 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
Another useless update of breakthru data by our Ministry of Truth, which doubles as the DOH. New motto: Garbage Data Is Our Only Passion"
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Oct 26 2021

The Process for Identifying Breakthrough Events

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A visualization of the breakthru event identification process, which has serious flaws, but the reporting of these is even worse.
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Oct 25 2021

Regional Cases and Deaths, October 22

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another look at the US by region for case and death trends.
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Oct 25 2021

How Many People Have Actually Been Infected?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Another look at an estimate of total infected people by state.
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Oct 25 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 44

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
A few more observations and research summaries.
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Oct 25 2021

A Musical Aside

By Kevin Roche Commentary 12 Comments
Last nite 50,000 people in Minnesota joined with the Rolling Stones to tell CV-19 that it isn't going to control their lives.
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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...
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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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