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Feb 13 2022

Our Cultural Destruction

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
It may already be too late but the fight against wokist indoctrination and social transformation has to be kicked up to a much higher level.
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Feb 13 2022

Our Current Financial State

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
More ill-advised economic commentary.
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Feb 12 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 104

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Yay!! I am completely caught up on research summaries for the moment.
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Feb 11 2022

Younger Age Groups, February 10

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Still no reason for panic in the young age groups and serious illness remains extremely rare.
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Feb 11 2022

Age Structure Charts, February 10

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The age structure data from the weekly report indicates a sharp fall in events across age groups.
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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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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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Another company whose valuation I don’t understand, Oura Health which makes the ring that supposedly tracks all kinds of health-related data for people, is acquiring a company called Counsel Health...
November 10, 2026
Cencora, formerly Amerisource Bergen, a large drug wholesaler, is acquiring a greater equity stake in American Oncology Network.  All three of the major drug wholesalers have interests in oncology companies....
October 22, 2026
There is some weird angle here, as Angle Health raises $600 million in a new capital round, but it appears some of it is to provide liquidity to existing shareholders....
September 22, 2026
More AI craziness in health care.  A company called H1 is buying Defacto Health for God-knows how much money.  Both companies claim an AI background and to help with “provider...
September 11, 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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