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Aug 11 2020

Minnesota Trends Graphs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Some graphs that depict trends in cases, hospitalizations and deaths with a different scale for deaths to display relative change better, thanks to some readers.
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Aug 11 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 62

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Some random items, with the school and child debate in particular rolling on.
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Aug 10 2020

Monday Meanderings

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
How dumb does the state think we are? Apparently pretty dumb.
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Aug 09 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 61

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few research pieces, covering topics of current interest.
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Aug 08 2020

What We Learned and Know This Week

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Still a number of unanswered questions around our new BFF, which isn't going away, ever.
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Aug 06 2020

An Antidote to Fear-Mongering

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Absolutely nothing to be concerned about in Minnesota's non-epidemic.
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Aug 06 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 60

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A potpourri for your afternoon perusal.
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Aug 06 2020

More on Children and Schools

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
There is a curious surge in published research attempting to suggest that children are a major problem in the epidemic. Wonder what or who could be behind that?
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Aug 06 2020

Masks, Masks, Masks, Is Our Whole Life Masks?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Despite my anger at the mis-information spread by politicians, and others, I will try to be balanced about the mask issue.
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Aug 05 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 59

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The late nite research summary dump. Much more coming tomorrow, including masks and schools.
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Aug 05 2020

When Do Coronavirus Deaths Occur?

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An updated table and chart based on date of death.
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Aug 05 2020

Updated Minnesota Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An updated look at death and hospitalization rates shows the general continuing decline.
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Aug 04 2020

A Brief Minnesota and National Status Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
A bit of a status update.
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Aug 04 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 58

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The morning research dump.
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Aug 03 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 57

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The week starts off with another burst of coronavirus studies.
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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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Cityblock raises $116 million in new capital, partly to help with the acquisition of Homeward Health.  Cityblock coordinates and provides care in urban settings and Homeward is focused on rural...
August 21, 2026
Happy Health is ecstatic to raise $75 million in new capital for its home health monitoring platform, which helps manage sleep apnea and other problems.  We will see how ecstatic...
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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