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Aug 10 2021

Reinfections, Breakthrough Infections

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Doing my best to understand both reinfection rates after an initial CV-19 infection and breakthrough infections following vaccination.
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Aug 09 2021

Masks, on Children Especially

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Once more after the mass(k) delusion, particularly as used to torture millions of school children.
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Aug 09 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary 20 Comments
Catching up with a few observations and some quick research summaries. More detailed ones on a couple of important studies coming.
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Aug 08 2021

Japan, that Wonderful Exemplar of Masking

By Kevin Roche Commentary 17 Comments
Japan masks up but it makes no difference to the coronavirus.
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Aug 08 2021

A Lot of Things Are More Deadly to Children than CV-19

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
CV-19 is not a major cause of death for children.
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Aug 08 2021

CV-19 and Young Persons, August 5

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An updated look at CV-19 in children in Minnesota.
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Aug 08 2021

Percent Change in Cases Per Week Per Age Group

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An interesting chart to see if cases are increasing or decreasing at different rates among different age groups.
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Aug 08 2021

Cohort Analysis, August 6

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
An updated cohort analysis, showing case rates of outcomes.
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Aug 08 2021

CV-19 Events in the Unvaccinated, August 6

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Most cases, hospitalizations and deaths are still happening in the unvaccinated.
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Aug 08 2021

Regional Cases and Deaths, August 6

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
And a breakdown of that national picture into regions.
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Aug 08 2021

National Case and Death Animations, August 6

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Updated national case and death animations.
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Aug 08 2021

Case Fatality Rates Decline Steadily

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
The proportion of people dying of CV-19 has steadily declined.
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Aug 08 2021

National Burden of Illness

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Charts of the CDC's data on burden of illness.
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Aug 07 2021

My Original Star Tribune Column

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
The full text of the original column I submitted to the Star Tribune, a modified version was very kindly printed in Saturday's edition.
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Aug 07 2021

An Updated Big Picture on the Epidemic

By Kevin Roche Commentary 30 Comments
Like a phoenix reborn, epidemic terror and hysteria reaches for new peaks, so time for another rational look at what has and will happen.
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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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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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