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Oct 11 2021

Deaths by Age Over Time, October 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Deaths by age group, showing an dramatic uptick among the elderly, who are heavily vaxed.
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Oct 11 2021

Age Group Charts, October 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another helpful update on epidemic events by age group.
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Oct 11 2021

Overview Charts for the States

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Overview charts for every state!
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Oct 11 2021

Vaccination Rates in Minnesota, October 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An updated look at vaccination progress in our state, which has been pretty good, with little impact on recent events.
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Oct 11 2021

Overview Chart, October 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The epidemic in one picture, although takes a lot of analysis to understand what the curves are saying.
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Oct 09 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 36

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
A lot of research, including Delta isn't more transmissible and a lot of vaccines, vaccines, vaccines, is your whole world vaccines.
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Oct 08 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 35

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
A lot of research sitting out there, so going to get a few off quickly.
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Oct 07 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 34

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Heading toward the end of the week with yet another round of vaccine-heavy research summaries.
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Oct 07 2021

Relative Death Risks

By Kevin Roche Commentary 20 Comments
I used to do this all the time over a year ago, and if anything the contrast in death risk has gotten even starker.
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Oct 07 2021

Regional Cases, October 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A peak at cases around the country.
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Oct 07 2021

Breakthrough Events, October 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The state's reporting method makes it hard to track trends in breakthrough events, which is exactly what they intend.
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Oct 06 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 33

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
A lovely day in Minnesota, which I will ruin by providing you with more CV-19 research summaries.
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Oct 05 2021

A Health Care Post!! How Exciting!!

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
Health care spending is highly concentrated in a few Americans, and that spending is somewhat persistent.
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Oct 04 2021

Year-Over-Year Charts, October 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
The year-over-year charts reveal several items which require explanation and more data from DOH.
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Oct 04 2021

Active Cases, October 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Active cases appear to be rising, but that is likely an artifact of excessive school testing levels.
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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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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....
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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...
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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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