A Sunday catchup on CV-19 research, with the usual multiplicity of topics.

American and Minnesota are going tube city quickly.

A chart shows just how fake the initial BLS unemployment claims numbers are.

Weather related deaths are actually decreasing.

2023 is experiencing a far higher federal budget deficit than originally forecast. We have to stop spending.

Comprehensive primary care initiatives may not be achieving either reductions in spending or improvements in quality.

Trying to get provider network composition right bedevils payers.

A truly fascinating piece of research demonstrates the difficulty of replicating soft science results.

A Florida State University professor just makes up data to try to prove racism. He got caught but most don't.

An intervention to to reduce knee pain in overweight osteoarthritis patients doesn't lower pain by much.

Physician practice patterns vary, and those variations can affect both spending and quality outcomes.

A remotely-delivered behavior intervention does zipola to meaningfully reduce body weight or improve health status.

A potpourri of the ongoing but somewhat diminishing tide of CV-19 research.

I continue to expect rising health care prices and spending as we move through 2023.

Another month of data shows the ongoing decline in CV-19 cases, which probably reflects reporting trends as much as real infections.