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Sep 27 2021

Proportion of Deaths in the 65 and Over Group

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
After an initial dip, the proportion of deaths in the over 65 group is returning to its former level.
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Sep 27 2021

Long-term Care Cases

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An updated look at long-term care resident and staff cases.
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Sep 27 2021

Cohort Analysis, September 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An updated look at the cohort analysis shows remarkable stability, taking testing levels into account.
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Sep 27 2021

Epidemic Overview, September 26

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The current case wave in Minnesota looks a lot like the spring one so far. Hard to tell which way it goes next.
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Sep 25 2021

Year-Over-Year Charts, September 23

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Year-over-year charts give a very interesting perspective of epidemic data.
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Sep 25 2021

Age Group Data, September 24

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More data on events by age group with a focus on recent weeks.
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Sep 24 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 27

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
Trying to stay steady on the hamster wheel of CV-19 research.
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Sep 23 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 26

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A quick catchup on research so I don't get too far behind. Heavy on vaccines as you might expect at this point.
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Sep 23 2021

Testing in Younger Age Groups

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Testing levels determine case levels in children's age groups, and then affect hospitalization case rates.
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Sep 22 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Quite a few new papers of interest, so an afternoon downburst of summaries.
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Sep 22 2021

Breakthrough Infections, September 20

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Doing our best to present accurate information on cases and events in vaxed people. The state clearly doesn't want you to really understand this.
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Sep 22 2021

Cohort Analysis By Age Group, September 20

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Trying to understand outcomes by age group is important, but very hard given the limitations of Minnesota's data reporting.
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Sep 21 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 24

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
A mixed bag of research today with a couple of introductory observations.
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Sep 20 2021

Events by Ten-Year Age Groups, September 17

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Age group charts show the effect of the state's stupid school testing policies and mis-attribution of hospitalizations.
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Sep 20 2021

Hospital Use, September 17

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Hospital use appears to be back to April levels, but that is only using DOH's warped attribution methods.
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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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2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
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MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
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