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Jun 22 2020

Another Stop the Presses Immunity Study

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another study finding both cross-reactive T cells and that many patients with mild illness have no antibodies, but do develop memory T cell responses.
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Jun 22 2020

Some Coronavirus Data Updates

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The data continues to show how bifurcated the epidemic is.
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Jun 21 2020

Sunday Nite Coronavirus Meanderings

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Catching up with some articles and research.
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Jun 20 2020

The Minnesota Model Output

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The visual evidence of how far off the Minnesota epidemic model was is stunning.
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Jun 20 2020

Dictator Walz Gave No Consideration to Any Harms Before Issuing Extreme Lockdown Orders

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Dictator Walz gave no consideration to the harms stemming from his lockdown orders.
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Jun 19 2020

A Head Full of Drowning Coronaviri, Part 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Catching up with a few more research summaries and other items.
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Jun 19 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
More research, antibodies, household infection rates, and a few other items.
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Jun 18 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 24

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Some interesting coronavirus items today.
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Jun 18 2020

A Centers for Disease Control Summary Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A Centers for Disease Control report summarizes epidemic outcomes through May 30.
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Jun 17 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 23

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The studies keep rolling in and we provide a few summaries.
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Jun 16 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 22

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A few summaries for bedtime reading.
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Jun 16 2020

Place of Death

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Minnesota has a very different proportion of deaths from coronavirus in various settings than exist in national numbers.
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Jun 15 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus, Part 21, and My Daily Sickening from Listening to the CV Briefing

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The usual medley of coronavrius items and my regurgitation, with commentary, of the usual nonsense from the daily coronavirus briefing.
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Jun 15 2020

Happy Screwed Up Model Day

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
It is June 15 and the Minnesota epidemic model is fully revealed as a piece of crap.
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Jun 15 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 21

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A weekend's catchup on coronavirus 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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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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