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Oct 03 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few weekend summaries.
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Oct 02 2020

What, Masks May Make Things Worse!

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Why weren't we told this earlier, some masks may actually facilitate transmission. Shocking, just shocking.
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Oct 02 2020

More on PCR Testing and Infectiousness

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
More research supports not treating tests with cycle number above 35 as a positive.
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Oct 02 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 24

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Some of the usual topics covered in the latest round of research summaries, plus comments on the President's infection.
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Oct 02 2020

Viral Load and Transmission

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Two meta-reviews on proportion of asymptomatic cases and viral loads.
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Oct 01 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 23

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A few more research summaries, including testing, masks, antibodies, etc.
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Sep 30 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 22

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
More on cross-reactivity, testing and schools.
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Sep 30 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 21

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The research continues to suggest the pre-existing immune response is responsible for the wide prevalence of asymptomatic infections, and a couple of other summaries.
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Sep 28 2020

The CDC Takes an Early Look at Return to School

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
A new CDC report on schooling and cases among children and a brief note on the CV-19 briefing.
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Sep 28 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 20

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
We return to the other of our series, Head Full of Coronvirus (but is it viable?), with some research and article summaries.
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Sep 28 2020

Excess Death Chart

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A visual of the national trend in lockdown deaths.
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Sep 28 2020

We Should Be Really Worried About All Those University Student Cases

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A table demonstrates lots of University cases, nothing serious. Stop the over-reaction.
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Sep 28 2020

Picturing Transmission

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A nice diagram of droplet and aerosol transmission.
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Sep 28 2020

Sweden, Oh Sweden

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Sep 27 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research Hits the Century Mark

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
One more dump of research.
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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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Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion.  Both companies claim this is all...
October 6, 2025
Another weirdly named company, Thyme Care, spices things up by raising a fresh $97 million in capital to support its cancer care managment business.
September 25, 2025
Sometimes companies change their name, I have no idea why and it often seems goofy.  CapitalRx, which is a pharmacy benefit manager, with aspirations to be a broader technology provider...
September 25, 2025
Innovacer, a health care technology company that claims extensive use of artificial intelligence, is acquiring Story Health, which helps manage patients with chronic care conditions and who need specialty care.
September 18, 2025

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