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Aug 16 2021

Week-Over-Week Percent Increase in Daily Cases, August 12

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Trying to find another way to track trajectory, the percent change in cases for a day, week over week, has promise. Here are the initial charts.
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Aug 16 2021

Active Cases, August 12

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The active case update shows the bump but also may indicate plateauing.
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Aug 16 2021

Upper Midwest Case Trends, August 12

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A great chart to see the synchronicity of the epidemic in our region.
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Aug 16 2021

Yeah, Vaccines Are Working Pretty Good

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Some charts that suggest good effectiveness of vaccines.
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Aug 16 2021

US Excess Mortality Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Excess mortality is below expected levels at this point.
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Aug 16 2021

Regional Deaths, August 12

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
And regional death trend charts. CFR way down.
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Aug 16 2021

National Death Animation, August 12

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
And once more we can look at the pattern of alleged CV-19 deaths.
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Aug 16 2021

National Case Animation, August 12

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Watch the pretty colors change from region to region.
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Aug 15 2021

Our Uber Incompetent and Embarrassing Government

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Recent world events again reveal how pathetically incompetent and ideologically bankrupt the current administration is.
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Aug 14 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
Vaccines, vaccines, vaccines, is your whole life vaccines? No, we actually cover some other research as well today.
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Aug 12 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
Another vaccine-heavy set of summaries, but some other interesting research thrown in.
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Aug 11 2021

You Can Hear Me Today

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
I will on the Dennis Prager show at 1 pm central.
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Aug 11 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 12 Comments
Much of the research continues to focus on vaccines, breakthrough infections and Delta.
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Aug 11 2021

Breakthrough Infections in Minnesota, August 9

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
We will begin tracking breakthrough data in Minnesota as best we can. Here is an initial set of charts.
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Aug 11 2021

Hospitalizations in Recent Weeks

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A table showing recent weeks' hospital admissions.
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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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August 20, 2026
DocGo, a provider of medical transport services and “mobile” health, is acquiring Hicuity Health, which offers “virtual” care services.  To show you what great investments many of these health care...
August 18, 2026
Hinge Health, which manages care for musculoskeletal and migraine conditions, opens the door to gastrointestinal care with a $105 million acquisition of Cylinder Health, which focuses on managing meds and...
August 5, 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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